August 27, 2018

John Hattie on Visible Learning and Feedback

56 minutes

Episode 018: John Hattie, Visible Learning

We are so excited to share with you the conversation we were lucky enough to have with Dr. John Hattie - educational researcher, professor, Director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute, and overall brilliant person. Please enjoy, and send your questions, comments, discussions to us @VrainWaves to keep this conversation going!

Connect with Dr. John Hattie

Twitter: @john_hattie, @VisibleLearning | Website: https://visible-learning.org/

Connect with Vrain Waves

Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

Out of our heads and into the classroom (01:18)

Graphic Jam / dual coding (02:15)

Everyone Can Create, Apple (03:45)

Show me your values (04:17)

Intro to John Hattie (07:11) | Hattie’s Meta-Analyses

Start of interview (07:49)

Hardware / software / inside - How we think (08:52)

What is visible learning & what problem does visible learning answer? (10:38)

95-97% of what we do increases achievement to some degree

Above average effect = >0.4 effect size / List of influences

Know thy impact (13:59)

Professional development (15:25)

Moving from ‘how we teach’ to ‘how we interpret our impact’

Hattie’s visible learning team workflow: (17:30)

Teachers are to “D.I.E.” for

Diagnosis = Needs Analysis (16 to 20 factors) - ask staff, teachers, students

Intervention & Implementation

Make sure the intervention addresses the diagnosis

Implement effectively

Evaluation

Use a portfolio of evidence to change how we think

Evaluation vs. Research (20:03)

Evaluative mindset for educators

Graham Nuthall’s research | book: Hidden Lives of Learners |

Feedback discussion (23:28)

Feedback given v. feedback received

What type of feedback is received? (25:30)

Importance of where to go next

Amount of feedback the teacher receives about where to go next (26:40)

June 2018 EdWeek article w / Dr. Hattie on Feedback (2018)

2011 article on feedback

Directions for Assessment in New Zealand | NZ Assessment for Learning

Visible Learning Feedback book, 2018

Assessment-Capable Learners (28:33)

Book: Developing Assessment-Capable Visible Learners

Teaching students to be interpretive about their test scores

Book: 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning

Assessment as helping the teacher

Nuthall: students know 40-60% of what is being taught

ASCD Article - Fisher, Frey, Hattie: Assessment-Capable Learners

Class Size Discussion (34:24)

0.2 effect size

Same instruction in smaller v. larger classes (35:45)

Hattie’s 2015 Reports: What Doesn’t Work in Education: The Politics of Distraction | What Works Best in Education: The Politics of Collaborative Expertise

Gene Glass research

Andreas Schleicher: TED Talk - Use Data to Build Better Schools

Classroom relationships (39:32)

Henry Levin (40:52) - The Economics of Student Time | Mapping the Economics of Education

How do we make schools more inviting for students (40:03)

Science of Learning Center in Melbourne (42:23)

Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (43:20)

Strengths-based Education (45:56)

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