John Hattie's work highlights the importance of ensuring quality teachers are inspiring and guiding students to great success. His work suggests we (teachers) must consider themselves to be activators and evaluators. Lessons should be planned to be student led and less teacher instruction. It is our role as educators to influence students to be lifelong learners for now and the future.
Hattie's work suggests it is a variety of influences that impact on student learning that are all correlated to teachers. He suggests student expectation is to have an effect size of 1.88, the highest effect on student achievement.
To begin we need to go back to the basic understanding of what effect size actually is.
Hattie studied over 800 meta-anaylsis relating to teacher practice and student learning.
After numerous analysis of data, he came to the conclusion (in short) that .04 as represented as the standard deviation to be the pivot point for student success to occur. Although anything over 0.0 is consider by some to be growth, in hindsight this is not an accurate representation of true growth.
This is just the beginning of my exploration to find the true meaning of Visible Learning and what it truly means to be a visible learner.
Please come along with me on my journey of discovery through the eyes of Hattie.
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