Professor John Hattie gave a keynote presentation on “Collaborative Impact” in front of school leaders and principals at Cognition Education’s “Collaborative Impact: Research & Practice Conference 2017”. Watch the video to get some important updates on the Visible Learning story. Read on for some quick takeaways.
UPDATE: Thank you for your comments! Unfortunately all the videos have been deleted on Youtube. Nevertheless, you can read on about the previously available keynote video for some quick takeaways.
The Evidence Base
John Hattie constantly updates his Visible Learning research which is now based on the data of 300 million students. He has synthesized over 1400 meta-analyses and put together a list of 252 influences related to learning and achievement. The story underlying the data of Visible Learning remains unchanged although these numbers are up from 800 meta-studies synthesized in the Visible Learning meta-study (2009).
In his presentation, Hattie also gave a new explanation of the hinge-point d=0.4; the average effect size of all influences. Comparing the data of different education systems (Australia, UK, USA) he wanted to know how much growth students make over a year of schooling. Hattie found that in each of these countries it is exactly 0.40 in terms of effect size – “to the decimal point”. Yet another evidence-based argument why students deserve at least one year of growth for one year of schooling.
New No. 1: Teachers’ collective efficacy
At the top of the list of influences, there are some new entries since the first Visible Learning study was published in 2009. In his presentation, Hattie cites the new number one as “collective teacher efficacy”. (NB: The top two entries are inverted in a paper published in 2015). The most important aspect of “collective efficacy” is making teachers believe: “I cause learning.”Collective efficacy is not about making teachers feel good about themselves, it is more complicated than just believing you can make a difference collectively. Hattie’s definition of “collective efficacy” is “collaborative conversation based on evidence”. There are a couple of books about the subject but Hattie suggests that only some of them get the notion right, e.g. Jenni Donohoo’s “Collective Efficacy: How Educators’ Beliefs Impact Student Learning“.
John Hattie about Teacher Collective Efficacy. Video screen shot (c) Cognition Education
New No. 2: Teacher expectations
Teacher expectations can have a huge impact on learning outcomes. How do teachers make learning challenging according to the Goldilocks principle: Not too hard, not too boring? Hattie cites Christine Rubie-Davies book and research: It is about “challenge” not about “doing your best”. For further insights, you should read her book “Becoming a high expectations teacher“.
John Hattie about Teacher Expectations. Video screen shot (c) Cognition Education
Know thy Impact and Hattie’s Mindframes
When asked by teachers and school leaders “What does impact mean?” Hattie never answers the question. According to him, more important than a definition of “impact” is what teachers and students inside the school think that “impact” and “learning” looks like? Hattie got into trouble last year when TES published an interview with the title “Hattie is against teachers being researchers“. According to him, they missed the second half of the sentence: “I don’t want to be educators to be researchers, I want them to be evaluators.” Instead of asking why-questions teachers should ask so-what-questions: What is the impact?
John Hattie’s Mindframes of Teachers. Video screenshot (c) Cognition Education
Round-up: Collaboration and collective impact
To sum it all up Hattie provides some guidelines of how to reframe the conversation about teaching and learning in order to achieve collective impact.
“We need to move away…
- from teaching to learning
- from best practice to high impact
- from looking at teachers teaching
- to sharing observations of the impact
- and collectively evaluating this impact
- from prioritizing achievement to prioritizing progress.”
Sources:
- Video: Cognition Ignition 2017: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCifF8_7Ihczp4perySrED_g
- Presentation slides: Screenshots taken from the video (c) Cognition Education 2017: www.cognitioneducation.com
Further reading:
Christine Rubie-Davies (2014): Becoming a High Expectation Teacher
Jenni Donohoo (2016): Collective Efficacy: How Educators’ Beliefs Impact Student Learning
Hi there
Can you please send me the link to John Hattie’s video on collaborative impact?. It say’s it is unavailable on this website. Much appreciated.
The video of the Keynote says it is private. Is there a way to get the link or open it so it can be watched?
It has been my opinion since I began my own research that the integration of the what is taught is more broadly learned by how the teacher and the students share the values being presented in the class. There is more efficacy gained by the co-ownership of what is learned.
Video is not available.
The Collective efficacy video is saying unavailable. It wondering if it’s because I am trying to view it from Canada.
The video here is of the a panel, not of a Hattie’s keynote. Is there a different video we can see?
It is only through collaborative work Teachers can best perform and make impact on learners. This is the essence of teaching learning which should be encouraged and imbibed in teachers.
Everyone asking for the video… A quick Google search would lead you to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1k06fXsYd0
And still no video Ms Miettinen…