Tag Archives: Coe

Lesson observations: Would picking a top set get you a better grading?

Posted on 23/03/2016 by evidenceintopractice

Lesson observations: Approach with caution! For any measure of teaching effectiveness to be useful, it needs to be valid. To be valid, a measure also needs to be reliable. Reliability represents the consistency of a measure. A measure is said … Continue reading →

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How do we develop teaching? A journey from summative to formative feedback

Posted on 22/04/2015 by evidenceintopractice

researchED: Research leads network day, Brighton. April 18th 2015 The beginning of the new term means it’s taken a little while to get around to blogging about the great event on Saturday. This tardiness is additionally poor given that I … Continue reading →

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Growth mindset: What interventions might work and what probably won’t?

Posted on 19/02/2015 by evidenceintopractice

Whether discussed under the guise of ‘resilience’, ‘grit’ or ‘character’, there appears to be a great appetite for psychologically manipulating pupils’ personalities or their attributions about school. One concept which has particularly captured the imagination of teachers and school leaders … Continue reading →

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Developing research leads within schools: ‘the good we oft might win’

Posted on 14/12/2014 by evidenceintopractice

‘Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.’ Measure for measure, Act I Scene IV ResearchED Research Leads Network Day, 13th December 2014 It is perhaps indicative of the character … Continue reading →

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Investigating teaching using a student survey

Posted on 20/03/2014 by evidenceintopractice

In October I blogged on how student perception surveys might be used to provide a fairly reliable measure of teaching effectiveness. Since then, I have been piloting a version of the MET survey to investigate my own teaching (along with … Continue reading →

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Improving classroom observation

Posted on 21/01/2014 by evidenceintopractice

Interesting blog article by Prof. Robert Coe on the difficulty in providing valid, reliable and useful feedback from lesson observations. Classroom observation: it’s harder than you think “The reported reliabilities of observation instruments used in the MET study range from … Continue reading →

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Professor Robert Coe at ResearchED 2013

Posted on 09/12/2013 by evidenceintopractice

Interesting talk at the Researched 2013 conference by Prof. Robert Coe looking at the limitations of educational research and looking at aligning practice better with evidence. Practice & Research in Education: How Can We Make Both Better, and Better Aligned?

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