An excerpt from Professor John Hattie's Inaugural Lecture, Univeristy of Auckland, August 2nd 1999. Professor Hattie's work resonates very strongly with my own experiences and limited research. It most certainly encourages me to continue with further study in this field. This was his third inaugural lecture. The excerpt reads; There is so much known about what makes a difference in…
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Some interesting and important work. The Australian Institute of Social Research (AISR) is based at the University of Adelaide and brings together The Centre for Labour Research; The Don Dunstan Foundation; The National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GISCA); The Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU); and The Social Health Unit. The AISR specialises in spatial information,…
A new approach to teaching is reassembling familiar classroom techniques into a workable model that focuses on high quality student learning and improved outcomes. Link: Productive Pedagogy. [2002] Link: Education Queensland [2004]
Educational Catchup Downunder. A wonderfully ambitious paper just published in the new Journal of Human Capital combines school enrollment data and demographic tables to estimate educational attainment rates for 74 countries over the period 1870-2010. HereХ
Google Unveils New Tool To Dig for Public Data . Google launched a new search tool yesterday designed to help Web users find public data that is often buried in hard-to-navigate government Web sites. [Wash Post Technology]
Might as well panic If you don't know what to do, and you're frightened, might as well panic.That seems to be the first rule of being a member of the human race. Apparently, panicking is an acceptable substitute for forethought, contingency planning or actually taking productive action. We almost want to blame the thing we're anxious about on the person…
Infinity--they keep making more of it If you had a little business in a little town, there was a natural limit to your growth. You hit a limit on strangers (no people left to pitch), some became friends, some became customers and you then went delivered as much as you could to this core audience. Every day wasn't spent trying…
Do Smart Parents Raise Smart Kids?. Not surprisingly, the answer is yes. But we might also be interested in magnitudes. A new paper using German data finds a parent-child test score correlation of 0.45, which is bigger than the intergenerational earnings correlation in Germany (about 0.2, I think). So a 10% increase in parentsХ