John Hattie is a New Zealand academic whose interests lie in research methodology, structural equation modelling, self concept and models of teaching and learning. In a 2003 presentation to a world leadership forum he explained that his motivation was to improve the quality of New Zealand’s education system for the benefits that a world class education system has on the global economy. In the same paper, Hattie suggests that the most critical factor affecting the students outcomes is actually the teacher and not the school. Furthermore he suggests that teaching needs to go from an experience oriented activity to a clinical science, as has similarly happened for doctors who at first treated patients based on their own experiences of what works but gradually changed to treating patients based on what evidence has been amassed about that particular situation. Quantifying the influences on educational quality was the topic of Hattie’s inaugural professorial address in 1999. Hattie collected the data from many different studies in order to rank the effect size of each influential factor. In that paper as well Hattie identified qualities of the teacher as having the biggest effect and suggested that experience as a teacher is not enough to become an accomplished teacher, instead each teacher may require further training to follow up on the initial training that teachers receive before entering the school system.
No comments:
Post a Comment