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Evidence Based Teaching?
Oliver Quinlan’s got me thinking out loud… …What if we spent all the money / time / efforts that our Teaching Assistants cost / provide on conducting detailed analysis of progress and then feeding this back to the teacher and learner? John Hattie’s work is hard to ignore. But Oliver’s right. We continue to be…
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