When I first read the title and introduction of the press release I was a bit baffled by the results of this review published in Educational Review as it shows that – in the US – inequalities in income affect how well children do in maths. This is not surprising at all, but more surprising… Read More Huge review study shows link between income inequality in a state and average results on math, but not reading

Check the updated toolkit here, get the background information in this video:

A study in the new Best Evidence in Brief caught my eye because we also discussed this briefly in our second myth book: what is the effect of co-teaching? We concluded in our book that there is not much research on the effectiveness of the approach on learning in comparison to e.g. regular teaching. Do note:… Read More The effects of co-teaching for students with disabilities (Best Evidence in Brief)

This is the slide deck that I used at the National ResearchED conference 2021 in London. The talk is based on the following article: Daniel, D. B., & De Bruyckere, P. (2021). Toward an ecological science of teaching. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne. (mail me for a copy)

There is a new Best Evidence in Brief and this time I picked this study from this biweekly newsletter written up by Justin Hill because it’s a very hot topic in my language region: Mieke Goos and colleagues recently conducted a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of grade retention practices in OECD countries. This adds to an already… Read More When is grade retention helpful? (Best Evidence in Brief

For the past few years, I was heavily interested scientifically in Collective Teacher Efficacy but was surprised nobody talked about Collective Student Efficacy. So, I started working on a paper on this topic. Trying to find arguments in research why we should pay attention to this or not and so on. I mentioned briefly the… Read More Why I shouted ‘no’ to my computer yesterday… Collective Student Efficacy