Evidence-based policy and practice in education – knowledge in the light or strategy in the dark?
The term ‘evidence-based policy’ rose to particular prominence in the early years of the New Labour...
Measuring Progress in Education
At the 10th Annual Festival of Education, held at the beautiful Wellington College, CEM hosted a...
The Big Evidence Debate – Catch Up
On Tuesday 4th June 2019 we held the first ever Big Evidence Debate. Leading educational experts...
Measuring Progress in Education – The good, the bad and the future
In recent years, ‘progress’ or ‘growth’ has become a much-discussed issue in education. The...
Progress measures are the root of all evil
In their pursuit of a number - a neat proxy for the distance travelled between two points - schools...
Is meta-analysis all just ‘an exercise in mega-silliness’?
To my mind, there was something heroic about Gene Glass’ presidential address to the 1976 American...
Meta-analysis: Don’t do it or Do it more carefully?
Meta-analyses (like the popular Sutton Trust Tool Kit and Hattie’s Visible Learning) apparently...
Is meta-analysis the best we can do?
By Professor Steve Higgins
Is meta-analysis in its current state trustworthy enough to be a basis...
The Big Evidence Debate: Introducing the 50% rule
As a news editor, I developed my own 50% rule: reporters should spend as much time writing their...
Meta-analyses and the making of an evidence-informed profession
Before entering into a broader discussion about the use of meta-analysis in school decision-making,...