-
Nov 19, 2024 | 
tes.com | Christian Bokhove
Sometimes in education, certain pieces of research reach an almost totemic status. I normally stay away from areas I am less interested in and know less about, such as reading in primary school, but because I do understand education research quite well, I was recently drawn to revisit one of those totemic pieces of work: Recht and Leslie’s baseball study.
-
Oct 27, 2024 | 
tes.com | Christian Bokhove
It is not always easy to find the balance between the complexity of findings from education research and their practical implications. When the question is whether research says that a certain classroom practice “works”, the answer simply is often “it depends”. This is even the case with evidence from “what works” organisations like the Education Endowment Foundation or the US-based What Works Clearinghouse.
-
Oct 22, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Christian Bokhove |John Jerrim |María Carvajal |Sam Sims
?Mathematical formulae have been encoded as MathML and are displayed in this HTML version using MathJax in order to improve their display. Uncheck the box to turn MathJax off. This feature requires Javascript. Click on a formula to zoom. ABSTRACTInspectors are tasked with judging the quality of provision based on visits to schools. They conduct these inspections sequentially, completing one before moving on to the next.
-
Sep 26, 2024 | 
tes.com | Christian Bokhove
I left my life as a secondary school maths teacher behind more than 12 years ago, but there are themes that will never disappear from my life, it seems, even though I have moved countries and now work in higher education. One of those themes is the debate about procedural knowledge and conceptual knowledge in maths. Put simply, this is about whether it is more important to practise the subject or to understand it.
-
Sep 12, 2024 | 
sussexbylines.co.uk | Christian Bokhove
Ofsted, England’s schools inspectorate, has been under significant scrutiny for the stress and mental distress it causes teachers. The government has ended the controversial system of awarding schools a one-word, overall judgement. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson stated that the system was “low information for parents and high stakes for schools”.
-
Sep 9, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Christian Bokhove
By Christian Bokhove, Professor in Mathematics Education, University of Southampton
Ofsted, England’s schools inspectorate, has been under significant scrutiny for the stress and mental distress it causes teachers. The government has ended the controversial system of awarding schools a one-word, overall judgement.
-
Jul 17, 2024 | 
tes.com | Christian Bokhove |David Reynolds |Zofia Niemtus |Zhenzhen Miao
When the final bell of the summer term has rung, it’s unlikely that your first thought will be about continuing professional development. And rightly so. Resting, relaxing and recharging should be the priorities, with all thoughts of school relegated to the end of the mental to-do list. But if - or maybe when - you do find your thoughts turning to the classroom, a bit of book-based professional development can be just the thing.
-
Jun 27, 2024 | 
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk | John Jerrim |Sam Sims |Christian Bokhove
It has always been quite a challenge to analyse written text. One popular approach for ‘document analysis’ is to do a lexical analysis, for example by counting particular words. Another approach is to take documents and then analyse the content manually with coding and theming. The former approach is quite scalable, but gives little insight into the actual content of long documents. The latter approach is very time-consuming and therefore not feasible with large collections of text.
-
Jun 24, 2024 | 
tes.com | Christian Bokhove
There are a few educational books and articles that have been popular over the past decade among those involved in the evidence-informed “revolution”. In many cases, such books and articles are a great contribution to the translation of research into practice. However, sometimes the situation is less clear cut. In the past I have written about Rosenshine in this column and how some of his ideas transformed into misconceptions and how some perhaps weren’t as robust as commentators thought.
-
May 24, 2024 | 
tes.com | Christian Bokhove
We sometimes encounter unhelpful caricatures in discussions about evidence-informed teaching. One example is the idea that education research takes place in ivory towers with no understanding of classroom practices. I am sure there is work that has little relevance for practitioners, but this doesn’t mean we need to throw away the baby with the bathwater. Many studies - sociological, classroom, econometric, psychological, pedagogical - can provide useful insights.
