24 March--Evidence-based Practice and Learning by Experience It's simple today!

Evidence-based practice; the main page with links is http://www.learningandteaching.info/teaching/what_works.htm

• The link to Hattie on special education is the first reference in the list at the end.
  
• You can download the Marzano report from the second reference.
  
• Hattie J (2009) Visible learning: a synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement London; Routledge, is accessible as an e-book from the library (it's no good giving the url because it is of course password protected) as well as a physical text. The full text engages with some (but not all) of the "drill-down" issues we discussed.

Learning by experience; For Kolb see http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/experience.htm

• Alternative accounts; the Jarvis model is discussed at http://adulteducation.wikibook.us/index.php?title=Jarvis%27s_Learning_Process_%281987%29 .
  

(Yellow boxes label "stages in the process", green ones "potential outcomes")


...and Phil Race's "Ripples" model presentation can be downloaded from here; http://phil-race.co.uk/?page_id=13

I was struck by how all three models rung bells with different people in the group, according to their practice; that is in the nature of selective attempts to model complex phenomena.

Let me underline that I am not expecting people to produce submissions which support my views; feel free to argue, as long as your ideas are supported by evidence and reading.

Other points mentioned;

• Ausubel's "Advance Organizer"  idea is discussed at http://www.learningandteaching.info/teaching/advance_organisers.htm

• the Kirkpatrick model (tm and all that b-s). The "official" site is at http://www.kirkpatrickpartners.com/ which tells you how corporate it is. But I'm happy to say that Alan Chapman's site trumps it on Google at http://www.businessballs.com/kirkpatricklearningevaluationmodel.htm

Next week--loose ends etc., so no particular advance reading; just bring your queries about what has not been clear ("everything" or "nothing" are not acceptable answers!). Email me with submission proposals and/or requests for tutorials. I can be in on Wednesday afternoons after Easter, but I won't routinely come in unless someone has booked in to see me--I am retired after all!

Keep checking here; if anything of potentially general interest comes up, I'll post it.  20:46