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Research Fellow, CREMCYA, St Mary's University.

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6 days

The substance behind this nonsense matters: Doug says schools should be like businesses managing kids to maximise learning output, controlling everything to ensure kids' thoughts, feelings & behaviour are ALWAYS directed towards achievement. Doug's wrong.

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Never meet your anti-heroes they say. @Doug_Lemov you did NOT disappoint me.

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2 months

I want to be really clear about my project here. I believe the plagiarism and academic malpractice of @john_hattie can significantly dent the political credibility of the education reform movement. Here's how 👇

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An article + 3🧵s on John Hattie's failures of academic integrity in recycling a business theory (goal-setting) as his Visible Learning theory of learning: 1. Edwin Locke, Ayn Rand, Frederick Taylor, and goal-setting theory

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@HeyMissSmith Thank you so much. It's amazing to see your tweets drive 500 views in a week to my paper that's been ignored for seven years. It means a lot personally. But more importantly - we're right, and we'll win!

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7 days

Sorry to bang on about this but the behaviour of @Doug_Lemov to @DrRLofthouse was outrageous. Please compare her complimentary, measured post to his scathing and derogatory responses. Doug has emerged as an important public figure in UK education and should behave accordingly.

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@SWConcern Wait I've just noticed this is directed at @DrRLofthouse , whose credentials and wisdom don't need any touting from me. To speak to someone like Rachel like that should mean that Doug Lemov be considered beyond the pale in terms of sensible debates for improving education.

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John Hattie has posed as a guru, with mastery of ed research and how schools should be. It has gained him power, wealth, and fame. It's just a pose though - here's sufficient evidence to show a 'repeated, pervasive indifference to the truth' & a lack of integrity. 🧵of 21🧵s

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@SWConcern Wait I've just noticed this is directed at @DrRLofthouse , whose credentials and wisdom don't need any touting from me. To speak to someone like Rachel like that should mean that Doug Lemov be considered beyond the pale in terms of sensible debates for improving education.

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@SWConcern @DrRLofthouse There is literally not one person in education who couldn't learn something from Rachel Lofthouse. To act like this towards her is beyond arrogance- it's pure hubris.

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Again the permissive vs authoritative strawman. It's not about 'aiming for kids to like you'. By the end of 2nd week of teaching you grow out of that. No teacher does 'anything to avoid upsetting kids'. All teachers avoid it as far as is reasonable. Crassness gets us nowhere.

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This 🧵 isn't a sob story. Just a first hand account of how the false certainty that Hattie presents to educational administrators can harm teachers and students. As @ScottEacott has explained, Hattie is treated as a guru. Lysenkoism (state-backed pseudoscience) does harm.

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A clear and definitive thread: 15 counts of plagiarism by John Hattie in Visible Learning, the 'holy grail of teaching' ---no editorialising--- Please RT!

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@ShakinthatChalk I could name a few schools with exemplary behaviour and terrible turnover.

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Tom Bennett telling us he's got 'science' and 'professional wisdom', while the rest of us have 'ideologically-based academic theories', and don't deserve professional 'autonomy'.

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How can @tombennett71 hold these two completely conflicting positions at once? Teaching should follow the 'professional wisdom' of school leaders rather than academic theories. But also follow 'science' rather than professional 'autonomy'. 🤔 Who's prescribing leeches here?

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@HeyMissSmith @droedmawr 2nd day at ARK teacher training. We watch a video of a boy daydreaming in class. He's told off in the strongest terms about how this isn't acceptable, by a teacher leaning right over into his face. We were asked what we thought. I said maybe a bit much. Told I was wrong.

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The best case for TLaC is that it in many settings it's the most effective way to reach the goals of the current ed system. That's a formidable case. TLaC can only be defeated by changing the accountability system. It's merely a symptom of the human capital maximisation agenda.

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Odd claim. He has. He's never said evry school should be required to have them (the article doesn't say that) but he's 💯 advocated/championed them

Silent corridors: what's all the fuss about?

These schools deserve medals, not a public roasting, says Tom Bennett

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Jasmine Lane 🦡🦘

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Terribly written article. At no point, ever, has Bennet advocated for silent corridors. So many untruths, so many charlatans asked for their opinions. Sad.

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The quotes criticising this are absurd. TLAC is designed to calibrate every moment of schooling to maximise achievement. That's an extreme position. It's being defended as a common sense approach to schooling. It's just not.

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Matthew Martin

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🧵 It’s time we talk about Doug Lemov’s "Teach Like A Champion" (TLAC) and its detrimental impact on education. This approach is emotionally manipulative, stifles creativity, and treats children like miniature professionals. Here’s why it’s not fit for purpose. #EdChat

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As a trainee I was filmed every week struggling with a difficult class, then made to watch it to reflect on. Filming was built-in to the training system for any trainee not deemed outstanding. the filming got me down & what I really needed was a change of class & a new start.

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I'm giving the Hattie stuff a rest. But I think it's an incredible story of hubris. Our education system is in crisis - not serving children and hellish to work in. Hattie emerged in the 80s with a crude mission to maximise learning outcomes & human capital. We need to move on

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John Hattie has posed as a guru, with mastery of ed research and how schools should be. It has gained him power, wealth, and fame. It's just a pose though - here's sufficient evidence to show a 'repeated, pervasive indifference to the truth' & a lack of integrity. 🧵of 21🧵s

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@HeyMissSmith Everyone, flat out, all the time. It's stressful!

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So @tombennett71 's side has 'science', the rest of us have 'ideologically based academic theories'. They have 'professional wisdom', we prescribe leeches. It's just prattishness at this point.

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2 months

Hattie's failings demonstrate that: the education reform movement exists to maximise student achievement through using business management techniques used on workers. It uses academic research only to serve this purpose. Not to openly consider the best interests of the child.

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My case for John Hattie as a reckless researcher, showing “repeated, pervasive indifference to the truth” This is different to the claim made by many that Hattie is a 'poor' researcher 🧵of errors that a scrupulous scientist dedicated to presenting the truth could not have made

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Once again @greg_ashman has intervened to strengthen my case. He takes issue that I claimed that Hattie's table 9.3 was wrong to re-label the participants as 'students' in the table he took from Locke and Latham (1990). I'm entirely correct and this thread shows why.

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Another story of hubris. At this point Doug Lemov is creating his own reality to defend his narrow view of ed. Here he is mischaracterising the reasons to the changes to the ACT test by presenting the response of a tutoring company as though it was the reasoning of the ACT board.

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Christian Kerr

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Quite revealing of a few things this, I humbly suggest.

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Article laying out how Lemov turned teachers into managers and students into workers 👇

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Incredible to go from 'what could possibly make you think that I might need advice from you' to 'you must be very busy talking down to people you don't even know as if you were some grand eminence'. 10/10 no notes

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Christian Kerr

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Quite revealing of a few things this, I humbly suggest.

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John Hattie is discredited - but it matters on what grounds: For fellow edu reformers like Dylan it's important that it's on 'technical' grounds For critics like me it's important that it's on integrity grounds, and it's linked to his identity as an educational reformer. 🧵

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Dylan Wiliam

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@StephenVainker @adamboxer1 Not sure that the issues you raise are "deeper". For me the main issue is that even without the errors, the results would be misleading, and perhaps even meaningless.

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An article + 3🧵s on John Hattie's failures of academic integrity in recycling a business theory (goal-setting) as his Visible Learning theory of learning: 1. Edwin Locke, Ayn Rand, Frederick Taylor, and goal-setting theory

John Hattie’s failures of academic integrity and the fragility of the education reform movement

This article sets out John Hattie’s extensive and discrediting failures to uphold academic standards in relation to the development of his Visible Learning model of teaching and learning. The...

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At the core of this article is that John Hattie failed to uphold basic academic standards of integrity in how he used Edwin Locke’s goal setting theory. This failure is important and is set out in further threads.

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Visible Learning table on parental programs and achievement claims to cover 77,751 students. 67,846 of those simply don't belong, in addition to further serious issues. 👇 I'll keep going for as long as it takes - the VL database needs to be retracted.

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There are many others. @Doug_Lemov is no plagiarist, but in Uncommon Schools he took inspiration from Jim Collins (business guru) and repackaged corporate culture (1980s business fad) as school culture (where children are expected to conform to the school in mind, body, spirit)

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@DrRLofthouse Awful, and apologies if I amplified it or escalated it. Appalling.

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This is why I really believe evidence will see us thru. We need to engage with reality. The ed reform movement, for better or worse, works with a particular version of who children are (malleable, tough). This version of children is clearly in some ways not a helpful one for now.

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Warwick Mansell

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Behaviourists, favoured under the Conservatives and led by Tom Bennett, do seem to have questions to answer over rising PX and suspension numbers in recent years. If current set-up working well, why are these figures climbing?

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@oldandrewuk @HeyMissSmith @Shivandavis Completely untrue. I'm more than happy with rules and routines. I'm unhappy with every aspect of school life being micro-managed to maximise achievement of learning outcomes. The quote below is not just advocacy of R+R. It's totalitarian. Weird you can't see the difference.

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@DrRLofthouse @SWConcern Ultimately if he wants to take himself down this cul-de-sac that's his own irrelevance sealed. He's had huge influence from a pretty small-scale research project. Credit to him. But then of course you've got to be responsive to criticism. Lacks ambition to double down like that.

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I just wanted to address, like @HeyMissSmith did with TLAC, why I'm obsessed with Visible Learning. For too long our schools have been driven by narrow theory/data on increasing achievement. Hattie has been at the head of this. 1/2

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@john_hattie 's @VisibleLearning database claims to cover studies on over 300 million students about how to raise achievement. But... see the major flaws on including these 5 studies covering over 78 MILLION students. The first one (≈25 million) isn't even about achievement 🧵

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'Teach Like a Champion' by @Doug_Lemov is, truly, a seminal text. In my view, it somehow even surpasses its inspiration- 'Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't' by business guru Jim Collins, beloved by the more reflective and capable junior exec.

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It’s a brilliant book and one that has led to the improvement in pedagogy in hundreds if not thousands of schools. A seminal text and a must read for every education professional.

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This is where the human resource management logic is important. It assumes that what the school does to increase performance is in the best interest of the child, because there's a 'mutual interest' in the child performing well. Any means to get there are considered fair enough.

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Christian Kerr

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I’m going to say it. This is the approach of a narcissistic manipulator - “Do you know how it makes me feel…?” This has no place in the classroom and those who adopt these practices are modelling a lack of empathy and compassion, which children need and deserve.

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@OdedRechavi This but no one's watching

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Visible Learning asks 'did you anticipate hope to have a greater impact?'. Arrogant & wrong. Hattie is replacing teachers' intuitive sense that hope matters, replacing it with totally worthless 'evidence' that hope doesn't matter. Why the VL work on hope must be retracted🔻

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This meta-analysis is included in a Visible Learning table about the relationship between parental autonomy support and achievement. There are only two problems: 1. it's not about parental autonomy support. 2. it's not about achievement. Visible Learning database = advertorial

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Much of the Visible Learning table on parental autonomy support and achievement manages to be neither about autonomy support nor achievement. When it does manage to be on topic, it's totally inaccurate. If this doesn't convince VL must be retracted,🤷👇

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One issue of edupreneurs and so on taking over from academics as the guiding force behind education policy is that the average academic would be ashamed of engaging in what is, at best, sophistry. It means you can't have a proper debate. @Doug_Lemov is far from the worst culprit

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One thing that needs to stop is education reformers who spread BS. @Doug_Lemov here is creating misinformation. His (because) implies he's giving the reasoning behind the exam board's decision. He's not. He's giving a RESPONSE from a test prep company. Shameful.

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Odd Hattie has made such a play about jigsaw, based on only 1 meta-analysis, written in Turkish (only abstract translated) and limited to Turkish studies. This meta-analysis from last year says the evidence is very mixed. Hattie's claims outstrip evidence

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Drew Perkins

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@code_c00000fd The jigsaw approach is the instructional approach with the largest effect size in John Hattie's latest book, which included 2100+ meta-analyses. That is a cooperative grouping approach.

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This is wonderful news. Her paper is THE best account of the edu debate. She's very aware of the key issue of the 'balance between addressing the gaps which young people begin school with... and in ensuring an enriching and empowering school experience'

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tilda martin

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🚨BREAKING @tes understands Professor Becky Francis chief executive @EducEndowFoundn has been asked to lead Labour’s curriculum & assessment review Francis will be seconded from her role at the EEF for around 12 months

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At this moment this discourse is a problem. It's wood for the trees. We need a broad discussion about what we want schooling to be for and a strategy for achieving those purposes. I can see the appeal of these micro-discussions for people who want to retain the status quo.

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This.

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Rachel Higginson FCCT

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🗣️New blog based on my experience of living and working with young people in the fourth industrial revolution...

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Yet Hattie and other gurus guide our educational administrators and politicians. It's entirely possible to improve our schools - we're wealthy countries & there's no shortage of expertise. But following narrow & false promises of 📈 student achievement will get us nowhere.

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Phil rightly touches on how zero tolerance isn't traditional. This paper's also excellent on how no excuses approaches are grounded neither in traditional nor progressive approaches to discipline, but an unsatisfactory combination of both.

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@PhilBeadle

Phil Beadle

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This didn't catch much of a wave yesterday, but it's a strong piece of writing: Zero Tolerance in the United Kingdom, part 2.

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How can @tombennett71 hold these two completely conflicting positions at once? Teaching should follow the 'professional wisdom' of school leaders rather than academic theories. But also follow 'science' rather than professional 'autonomy'. 🤔 Who's prescribing leeches here?

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@SWConcern One final thing on this. It looks much worse when you see it was a reply to....this complimentary and measured post:

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💯 this is in ed. We've got an ed system geared to a warped version of human capital maximisation. A small c conservative one based on developing the child to contribute and flourish in all aspects of their lives would be miles better.

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Christian Kerr

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'...a perversion of what was once conservatism. It is a brand of anarcho-Christian populism, which borders on fascism...' This. Small 'c' conservatism is not inherently a bad thing <ducks>. It has been co-opted and warped by free market ideologues to benefit them and only them.

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The link between happiness and achievement gets to the heart of the education debate. IF highly efficient education approaches don't lead the whole child to flourish, are they truly effective? It's telling then that Hattie makes no effort in understanding the link...1/n

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The Visible Learning + website, a collaboration between Professor John Hattie and Corwin, is presenting misinformation on a massive scale. Very many of the 357 tables related to academic achievement are likely to contain significant errors. The site should shut down. 🧵

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Now that @CorwinPress and @john_hattie have been notified, there's no reasonable basis to keep the claim of covering '132,000 studies involving 300 million students'. It's a total fabrication based on the crude error of systematically overcounting studies. @EdResearchAU 1/3

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The Visible Learning + website, a collaboration between Professor John Hattie and Corwin, is presenting misinformation on a massive scale. Very many of the 357 tables related to academic achievement are likely to contain significant errors. The site should shut down. 🧵

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@greg_ashman is completely wrong here. Here is the abstract of the article he links to: 'The implications of the results for...INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS are discussed.' ANY psychologist knows that undergraduates are used in lab experiments as convenient adults (not schoolkids)

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Much of the Visible Learning table on parental autonomy support and achievement manages to be neither about autonomy support nor achievement. When it does manage to be on topic, it's totally inaccurate. If this doesn't convince VL must be retracted,🤷👇

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The Tory edu policy was based on maximising the efficiency of how schools increase student performance. You can defend this from a RW perspective (human capital terms), but also a LW perspective (social mobility terms). It's clear by now Labour will change emphasis, not course.

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Christian Kerr

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Very concerning that the new education secretary's first visit in post was to Ark, a global hedge-fund founded, networked policy actor and key player in the failed academisation agenda. Predictably using their considerable networked influence to get in early with the new govt.

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🧵on why the concept of the 'academic press' is a more productive debating point than TLAC. There's room for disagreement over TLAC as doctrine vs toolbox - both sides are right in a way. We should be precise: we are against the 'academic press', which TLAC puts into practice.

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Dr Stuart Bracewell

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@Strickomaster @PhilBeadle I think, with respect, you're missing a crucial aspect of why TLAC generates such kickback (and I know we touched on this the other day)...it is very much *not* being treated like any other edubook you can dip in and out of. It is being - loudly - imposed at whole school level.

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@eduleadership My position: TLaC as a guide for calibrating EVERY moment of school to press on how the kids see themselves, feel, and act, for the very narrow purpose of maximising learning outcomes = authoritarian. Any individual technique= not necessarily authoritarian. Permissiveness = bad

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Visible Learning claims 'teacher estimates of achievement' have the 'potential to considerably accelerate' student achievement. Hattie even describes how this IMPACT can happen...except the evidence he uses merely shows the ACCURACY of teacher judgements. Hugely misleading.

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This arrow is used in Visible Learning to communicate to teachers that 'partnering' with students on grading will have an effect of .96. Except the evidence they are using says nothing of the sort. 👇

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This speaks about the purpose of schooling. There's a dead consensus that maximising performance in core subjects is good for the economy (better human capital) and the child (social mobility). Key question for now: what are schools for and what do we build the schools we want?

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The Visible Learning site claims that the remarriage of a parent is 'likely to have POSITIVE impact' on achievement. It cites 2 meta-analyses: one argues remarriage has a NEGATIVE impact on achievement. The other has NOTHING at all to say on the subject🤨

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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@RogersHistory I remember when 5 minutes of weekly assemblies at my primary school were spent reading out the latest attendance stats to the bemused kids, just to show Ofsted we were 'tackling' attendance issues.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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@PhilBeadle This is actually a perfect summary of ed policy since 2010. And is so artless it's a better critique than any of us could come up with

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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Greg's big claim here is that in the Mento et al paper there were some school students. I've never disputed this. There are also: Vending machine personnel, telephone operators, wood harvesters, logging crews, public utility 1st level supervisors, medical center managers, 1/2

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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His research is not just flawed - it's absolutely worthless: - his theory is plagiarised from business studies - his data wouldn't pass an A Level stats course. I see Visible Learning as a first domino to fall: the reform movement is flawed and can be dismantled.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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This arrow is used in Visible Learning to communicate to teachers that 'partnering' with students on grading will have an effect of .96. Except the evidence they are using says nothing of the sort. 👇

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@JulieHStern

Julie Stern

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The more I dig into research on grading, motivation, and life-long learning -- the more convinced I am that we need to PARTNER with students on assessment. The teacher should not be the sole judge of how well students are learning. Maybe not even the primary judge... Research

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@StephenVainker

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@miriam_cates If anyone's interested, I think this is her most relevant work for the role, and I'd say it's....very balanced and fair. Not sure there's a lot to take issue with. It's fairly readable as well.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

2 months

I'm running a project looking at the networks of ppl aiming to bring about a more inclusive education system: i.e. around AP/issues of exclusion/whole child ethos Please DM if you're prepared to talk (30-45 mins) about your prof. networks in these areas -please share- Thanks!

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

2 months

When you say wrote a management text, it was literally a management text. The inspiration for TLAC was the book "Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't" by management guru Jim Collins. Sadly though it was for educators - to rebrand them as managers!

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

1 month

So, when Hattie makes a complete mess of the research of video analysis on student outcomes, I have first-hand knowledge of the issues this can create. To be clear, I also know that video analysis can help, if and when used intelligently. But not as a simple tool for 📈outcomes

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@StephenVainker

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Hattie's lack of interest in integrity extends to multiple counts of plagiarism...of someone who had two loves in life - Taylorism and Ayn Rand! Our education systems: modelled on regurgitated, sophomoric, radical right managerialism. Strange but true!

@StephenVainker

Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

19 days

Visible Learning table on parental programs and achievement claims to cover 77,751 students. 67,846 of those simply don't belong, in addition to further serious issues. 👇 I'll keep going for as long as it takes - the VL database needs to be retracted.

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I said I would give it a rest and I WILL at some point but I wanted to give a further example to very clearly demonstrate the shortcuts that Hattie habitually takes. 🧵that takes you step-by-step through HOW Hattie comes to the errors endemic to the Visible Learning database.

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@StephenVainker

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It's very obviously not a permissive vs authoritative question. Ludicrous straw man. The question is this: should every moment of schooling be calibrated to press on kids to maximise learning outcomes? TLAC says yes, we say no.

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Justin Baeder, PhD

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Is TLAC (Teach Like A Champion) authoritarian? Some people seem to be forgetting the distinction between authoritative and authoritarian. It matters. Permissive doesn’t work. #education #teachersoftiktok #edleadership #principalsoftiktok #tlac

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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I've no issue with being blocked by @CorwinPress - the publishers and partners of Visible Learning. I do have an issue that this appears to be their ONLY response to all the evidence that the Visible Learning database, on which a whole industry is built, spreads misinformation.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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John Hattie has posed as a guru, with mastery of ed research and how schools should be. It has gained him power, wealth, and fame. It's just a pose though - here's sufficient evidence to show a 'repeated, pervasive indifference to the truth' & a lack of integrity. 🧵of 21🧵s

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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Why do you have to move to a new bit of paper to get the pen working again?

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

2 months

No. My claim is clear. Locke & Latham's goal setting theory was developed as a theory of work motivation. See p.1 of their book below. Hattie, flouting all academic standards of basic integrity, presented it as though Locke and Latham were talking about students in school.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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Peer review is done. So many bad experiences, but this is what did it for me: Peer review misses multiple counts of plagiarism by John Hattie. I write an article detailing the plagiarism. Peer review/editorial process misidentifies ME rather than Hattie as the plagiarist.

@ivanoransky

Ivan Oransky

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"3 million peer-reviewed papers published every year, multiply those by two-to-three reviewers, times four-to-eight hours per reviewer… that math doesn’t work. Yet we persist in this dreamlike fantasy that somehow peer review is going to ensure quality.”

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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Always impressed with approach of @story_projectUK to using stories meaningfully in schools. Perfect model of how research can improve schooling. Would recommend to any primary school and anyone interested in literacy research.

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Story Project

@story_projectUK

1 month

We really enjoyed being part of this wonderful event and talking about one of our favourite books! Grandad's Camper by @harryewoodgate is a fantastic story to open up conversations about death and grief.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

2 months

So how did Hattie fail to uphold academic standards in taking Edwin Locke's goal-setting theory as his educational model? There are two ways - how he used goal-setting quotations, and how he used data. This 🧵 will deal with the quotations

John Hattie’s failures of academic integrity and the fragility of the education reform movement

This article sets out John Hattie’s extensive and discrediting failures to uphold academic standards in relation to the development of his Visible Learning model of teaching and learning. The...

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

2 months

The obfuscating rhetorical tricks here are frustrating: 1. Using threat of 'defamation' to avoid stating what my case is. 2. Then fixating on the wording g of one tweet of one claim (out of dozens of claims) 3. Then claiming this nitpicking on one point has demolished my case.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

1 month

This is a joke but was not an insignificant part of my teacher training lol

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Jan Egil Hagen

1 month

@PepsMccrea The Tory power stance is obviously the next big thing in education.

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Stephen Vainker

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But the real importance is not Hattie’s limitations as an academic. It is the fact that he recycled a business theory (goal setting theory) as a model for teaching and learning.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

1 month

@Missymusician81 @MrARCmaths I'd go further here - you're talking for the silent majority of teachers. Most teachers just want a normal, reasonable system that pushes kids without breaking them 🤷‍♂️

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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Should teachers give feedback through providing comments or grades? According to Visible Learning, it's no big deal: giving comments rather than grades is only 'likely to have a small positive impact' (0.17 effect size) Hattie arrives at this through two very basic errors👇

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@StephenVainker

Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

30 days

My case for John Hattie as a reckless researcher, showing “repeated, pervasive indifference to the truth” This is different to the claim made by many that Hattie is a 'poor' researcher 🧵of errors that a scrupulous scientist dedicated to presenting the truth could not have made

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One thing that needs to stop is education reformers who spread BS. @Doug_Lemov here is creating misinformation. His (because) implies he's giving the reasoning behind the exam board's decision. He's not. He's giving a RESPONSE from a test prep company. Shameful.

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@StephenVainker

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Gaudi: "the straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God" Lemov: “the goal in teaching is to take the shortest path from A... to B”

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

2 months

@CovingtonEDU When you say wrote a management text, it was literally a management text. The inspiration for TLAC was the book "Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't" by management guru Jim Collins. Sadly though it was for educators - to rebrand them as managers!

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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This is actually a perfect summary of ed policy since 2010. And is so artless it's a better critique than any of us could come up with

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Mouhssin Ismail

@Mouhssin_Ismail

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Students from less privileged backgrounds don’t need special privileges, handouts, leg-ups, or dispensations. They just need the rules of the game to be applied equally and fairly. If you're talented and work hard—sometimes harder than others due to a lack of equal starting

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@HeyMissSmith You're right to. Really frustrating that it hasn't received more critical scrutiny here. People don't realise how influential it's been. It was my teacher training. Full stop. I was given no way of thinking about tea ching beyond it. Nothing.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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I can't quite explain it, but Teach Like a Champion is the VAR of teaching.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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According to the Visible Learning table on personality and academic achievement, the personality trait that really really doesn't help is... burnout. Big 6 now apparently.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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@jdurran TLAC, for better or worse, was my route into teaching. I would happily read a whole book of 'moderated' TLAC. Sensible reflections on it based on teaching a purposeful lesson, without the maximisation narrative.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

2 months

And even the 'professionalisation' of being a pupil. Here's John Hattie describing his project as creating an 'accountability system...from the student level upwards' 🤢

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Michael Merrick

@michael_merrick

2 months

Hard to find the words to express this without inviting snark, but the 'professionalisation' of teaching is a contributing factor to the exodus - it has meant we have imported in the jargon, bureaucracy and culture of the corporation into education and it doesn't always fit well

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@teachwellall It's crude TLAC identity regulation. Love the idea of an 'off-task scholar' here: 'The reason you correct behaviors in the classroom is that doing so leads to achievement and self-discipline for the students surrounding an off-task scholar'

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

16 days

A weird one. This paper is about the biases teachers have in favour of attractive students. Hattie uses it to claim you actually achieve more if the teacher thinks you're attractive and therefore has higher expectations. Not what the figures relate to.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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Teacher credibility is 6th on Visible Learning's list of factors affecting student achievement: John Hattie claims: 51 studies, 14, 378 students Actual authors of meta-analysis report: 6 studies, 1420 students The VL database must be retracted.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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The Visible Learning database is misleading educators on the efficacy of working memory training, by including two duplicate and five off-topic meta-analyses. 👇 CLAIMED effect size = 0.37/0.34 Effect size without duplicates and off-topic studies = 0.09

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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@eduleadership I honestly heard no argument for permissiveness or against authoritativeness yesterday. Can you share their words? It's a fact that every teacher learns very quick permissiveness doesn't work, and they need to be authoritative. The debate is authoritative vs authoritarian (TLaC)

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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To be more precise, I'd say yes AF is right - he has definitely championed school cultures where strictness is a key feature and equally AF doesn't describe T's approach as precisely as she could.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

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The reading list really has a thrown together quality. How could an article called 'The trade-off between child quantity and quality' written in 1992 possibly help a teacher? How?

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@englishspecial

Dr James Shea

@englishspecial

17 days

The 💰ECF and its now tainted ITTECF ideological list of things teachers should 'know that' and 'know how to' 🙄 is rapidly hitting political buffers - if it is not keeping teachers in the profession then it's time to think again, without ideology.

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Stephen Vainker

@StephenVainker

1 month

I'm blown away by this representation of yesterday's Bereavement in Education Summit. It sparks so much, such a good way to encapsulate an event. It was also done in 40 degree heat on a wonky board. Amazing!

@MendoncaPen

Dr Pen Mendonca

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“It is OK to feel angry or sad, don’t pressure children to be happy” Paige McCarthy at #BereavementEd One in every 29 children will lose a parent, carer or sibling - one in every primary school classroom. @StMarysU @AnnaLiseGordon @winstonswish

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