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The role of teachers is not to make managers' lives easier

Feb 29, 2016 | Category: behaviour

"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them." Benjamin Disraeli Questions about the purpose of education divide and bedevil: there's no real agreement...

#marking #planning #data #workload

Big data is bad data

Jan 11, 2016 | Category: leadership

The cost of bad data is the illusion of knowledge. – Stephen Hawking Schools, as with almost every other organ of state, are increasingly obsessed with big data. There seem to be two main aims:...

#data #Nicholas Nassim Taleb

The Illusion of Knowing

Nov 20, 2015 | Category: leadership

Knowledge, n.: The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.Ambrose Bierce Advanced Learning has commissioned me to write a piece about the uses and abuses of data in schools. My thesis,...

#knowledge #data

Pseudo intervention and the power of placebo

Jun 17, 2014 | Category: Featured

…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives… Francis Bacon Today's post has been contributed by a reader who has...

#data #Hawthorne Effect

5 questions to guard against availability bias and made-up data

Jun 08, 2014 | Category: myths

The cost of bad data is the illusion of knowledge - Stephen Hawking What's more likely to kill you? A shark or a hot water tap? We've all heard stories of killer sharks, but as yet Spielberg hasn't ma...

#data #lesson observation #Policy Exchange #MET Project #NC levels #Tristram Hunt

Making data meaningful: Pen Portraits

Oct 13, 2013 | Category: leadership

Most of what makes classrooms work is invisible. The activities that teachers and students enact are, by and large, irrelevant. I'm aware that this runs the risk of sounding like preposterous nonsense...

#Clevedon School #data #inclusion #Pen Portraits #targets