In this episode, I talk about John Hattie, who managed to take data on 80 million students from 50,000 studies and distill it down to a list of what works and what hurts in education, giving us a comprehensive and evidence-based list of best and worst practices in education- except, that is, if you pay attention to any of the criticism of his work.

Visible Learning: https://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Synthesis-Meta-Analyses-Achievement/dp/0415476186

Steve Higgins & Adrian Simpson (2011) Visible Learning: A Synthesis of over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. By John A.C. Hattie, British Journal of Educational Studies, 59:2, 197-201, DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2011.584660

Bergeron, P., & Rivard (trans.), L. (2017). HOW TO ENGAGE IN PSEUDOSCIENCE WITH REAL DATA: A CRITICISM OF JOHN HATTIE’S ARGUMENTS IN VISIBLE LEARNING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A STATISTICIAN. McGill Journal of Education / Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill, 52(1). Retrieved from http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/9475/7229