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WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION

Few things cause more worry and debate than education. Wherever you go in the world, you will rarely find a place where everyone is happy with the education system they have. Parents worry about their kids' grades; businesses complain that students don't have the right skills; politicians look at other countries' education systems and see only failure in their own. All want to see higher achievement, but the debate is how to do it. Should it be smaller classes or more homework, wearing school uniform or better pay for teachers?

Not only are there a huge number of things that people say will make education better, but people also disagree about whether each factor actually improves learning or not. So who's right? This is the question that the New Zealand academic John Hattie tried to answer over Sheen years of work when he analysed 60,000 studies into student achievement carried out with around

250 million students, mainly from English-speaking countries around the world. It's an amazing piece of work and has produced some surprising results. Hattie discovered that, with only very few exceptions, every factor which people thank will improve students achievement does work to some degree, when compared with doing nothing! He therefore quickly realised that rather than asking what policies and actions are positive, he needed to compare the size of the improvements. This resulted in a league table of over one hundred factors showing what really helps and what is less effective

Hattie's interpretation of this table is that it is passionate teachers that make the big difference. These teachers don't have to be specialists in their field with MAs and PhDs, but they need to understand what level their students are at and show them how to exceed their expectations. In contrast, the things that often cause the loudest arguments or cost the most money-such as uniforms or reducing class sizes or investing in IT -have a relatively small impact. Hattie suggests they continue to get more attention because these are the things that parents and politicians can see, whereas we don't see teachers and students at work. This is why he calls his analysts Viable Learning he wants to show those factors that can make a big difference

So what are the specific factors that score best in improving performance and which ones are less effective?

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All games (Fill in the Blanks): Fill in the Blanks: Nouns from Verbs - Complete the phrases (1-8) with nouns from the article that are based on the verbs in bold.

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Instructions: Read the statements below and mark them as YES if it is true or NO if it is false based on the information in the text.

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All games (Yes or No): The Impact of Educational Factors - Instructions: Read the statements below and mark them as YES if it is true or NO if it is false based on the information in the text.

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All games (Matching Pairs): Matching task - Instructions: Match the factors mentioned in the text with their corresponding descriptions.