Professor John Hattie

Professor John Hattie is a researcher in education. His research interests include performance indicators, models of measurement and evaluation of teaching and learning. John Hattie became known to a wider public with his two books Visible Learning and Visible Learning for teachers. Visible Learning is a synthesis of more than 800 meta-studies covering more than 80 million students.  According to John Hattie Visible Learning is the result of 15 years of research about what works best for learning in schools. TES once called him “possibly the world’s most influential education academic”.

John Hattie has been Director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia, since March 2011. Before, he was Project Director of asTTle and Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, Canada. You can find a full CV of Professor John Hattie (PDF) at the website of the University of Auckland.

John Hattie’s research in context

John Hattie’s research got a lot of attention from the media linked to the publication of his Visible Learning meta-study. The problem was that many individual aspects of his research were taken and used as a kind of checklist that could magically improve schools. It won’t work like that. John Hattie’s TED talk “Why are so many of our teachers and schools so successful” can be a good starting point to putting it all in context.
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You can find a lot more information about John Hattie and his research here on our website. For a deeper insight into Visible Learning you should definitely read the books!

 

21 comments on “Professor John Hattie
  1. Your work is so real and lacking in B.S.
    As an educator proud to practising when our system was recognised as one of the best in the world and having witnessed its unfortunate demise, I find th work of you and your colleagues extremely inspiring.
    And it gives me hope for the future of education in Australia.

  2. Mohammad Rashid Magsi says:

    Honorable Sir

    With profound regards we humbly request you that We are a voluntary organization which sets up work in Indus Valley Sindh, the southern part of Pakistan our project is to help and facilitate a libraries program in Sindh, with the name of “Mother of Civilization Library” We therefore anxious in collecting resource materials including any books Honorable Professor John Hattie an internationally a well-known a researcher in Education and author.

    Here is a large part of schools, colleges and university aged population in Sindh towns and countryside, who love to read and know more about his work, “Visible Learning for Teachers, Visible Learning, Visible Learning and the Science of We Learn, Self Concept, Intelligence and Intelligence Testing, , and other books & DVDs”, as we are unable to purchase books due to lack of resources and fundamental facilities of libraries.
    Your donations of books can do much to stimulate and encourage the growth of learning, especially among the young generation of Sindh about it. Therefore we appeal your great institution to make a little contribution of above books on compassionate and humanitarian ground; the result would be the placement of new or used books (or equivalent educational materials) into the library for needy and destitute Students.
    Hope you will consider our humble supplication with the glance of appreciation and make small numbers of books donation for this libraries program. In case, you wish to know more about our libraries program and various facets associated with it. Please free to contact our office on all the days.
    Thanking you
    Yours Sincerely
    Rashid Anees Magsi
    Project Manager
    Library Postal Address
    Name Mother of Civilization Library
    Street Sobho Khan Magsi
    City Radhan Station Dadu
    Province Sindh
    Postal Code 76310
    Country Pakistan
    Phone 00923003609982

  3. Hannah Paik says:

    Your research on “5 Big Ideas In Education That Don’t Work” mentioned that money spent on students do not seem to make a difference in student performance. You used the example of how Korea spends $60,000/student whereas the U.S. spends $105,000/student from first grade to high school graduation. In Korea, the difference of $45,000 and more is made up by parents who send their children to private tutors, after school academy, and enrichment classes. Money talks and makes a huge difference in student achievement.

    This kind of one sided research that compares the inside of the U.S. education system with outside of Asian countries is at best, quite misleading and displays lack of understanding of the educational realities in Asian countries such as Korea. Asian students perform highly because they are driven by their parents, not by the public education system. Asian parents invest heavily into their children’s education. In China, 6 adults (mother, father and 2 sets of grandparents) are all investing financially in 1 child. (this is one of the effects of China’s one child policy)(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/30/why-many-families-in-china-wont-want-more-than-one-kid-even-if-they-can-have-them/?utm_term=.367438b48f81) In particular, please note that many Chinese families are spending more than the average annual disposable income on their child’s education.

    Yes, money makes all the difference in education. Your calculation of $40,000/student is sufficient for a decent education that can put American students out in the front of the world competition is not at all supported by the available data.

    As a Korean immigrant who came to the U.S. at the age of 18 with a full experience of how Korean education works and as a teacher in the U.S. who works in a Title 1 school, where 95% of the students get free to reduced lunch I see the impact of poverty and what it does to students performance every day.

    Common sense tell us that the Law of Diminishing Return applies to all things, and it probably applies to education, but I do not think you can use the Asian model to suggest that we are quite there, yet, here in the United States.

  4. concernedreadingspecialist says:

    I attended an in-service on equity in pupil service delivery based on modules from a website. They quoted Hattie as saying that flexible grouping was ineffective. My impression from reading Visible Literacy was that flexible small grouping was an effective strategy. District leaders want to prohibit all non-heterogeneous grouping in instruction. Thoughts?

  5. I keep getting asked by my students as to why epistemology is not included as a topic for study in the New Zealand and Australian education curriculums. I know it comes under ‘the theory of learning’ in the European Baccalaureate system, but wonder at the reasons it was dropped in Australasia in the early days of curriculum formation. Can anyone help me with the historicity of this bizarre phenomena, or who to turn to who might be able to help. It’s no wonder the average modern day graduate can’t even distinguish relative truth from absolute, or personal taste from universal principle is it?

  6. Tamara says:

    Dear Professor Hattie,
    I teach in a K-2 building and we are grappling with how to implement the changing of all of our Learning Targets daily to meet the expectation of our teacher evaluation (5D+) to do so. I am curious. In your research did you find as strong of a link between effectiveness and the daily changing of Learning Targets in the youngest classrooms as, say, you did in the upper grades such as high school? Thank you.

  7. Scott Hunter says:

    Have you looked at the effect size of Lesson Planning and of Standards Alignment work?

  8. Rachel Treadaway-Williams says:

    @john_hattie Hi there, can I ask, with regards to ability grouping having a negative effect size, in particular with regards to high attaining students, is the evidence for this based solely on studies of ‘single school year’ classes?

  9. Dear all,
    Since 2006 we organize bianually a Congress on Neuroscience and Education in Brazil. I would like to get contact with Professor John Hatie in order to invite him and have information about his fee and availability for this event that will be held in August 24th and 25th of 2018.
    Sincerely yours,
    Marco A. Arruda, MD, PhD

  10. Matthew Spicer says:

    Dear Visible Learning
    I am studying a TEFL qualification – Teaching English as a Foreign Language. I am 48 and after a career in international trade and now exploring a move into teaching / development. I am English and living in Istanbul, Turkey. I am finding everything I am learning both fascinating and appropriate – I am keen to start my practical teaching correctly so would like to meet other teachers who follow the principles of teachers. Does you organisation have any followers in Istanbul ?

  11. Alison says:

    Professor Hattie-
    I realize this is a long shot, but all I can do is try! I’m interested in your thoughts on the use of a PLC model at the regional level. Would your research support the power of using the collaborative professional learning community on a wider scale, not just school level?

    I work for a regional education cooperative where we provide professional learning opportunities to educators in northern Kentucky in the United States. One of the pillars of our work has been to develop the space for regional educators to connect and grow, specifically to teachers who often do not have available, at the school level, others like themselves. (For example teachers of Arts and Humanities, School Counselors, and Library Media Specialists.)

    Do you know if this regional model has been used in other places? Thank you so much for your consideration and your impeccable work towards increasing our impact on student success.

  12. M. O. Buzz Williams says:

    Sharing your thoughts on what works(?) promotes self evaluation. It is quite helpful for me to determine at the outset what do my students already know. That gives me a starting point which acts as a springboard into what they do not know. During any semester it is always helpful for students to determine if they made errors because it is a chance for them to rethink, understand and make corrections. All of your comments take me back to our professional learning committees and what we teachers learn from each other. Thanks for all you do for us.

  13. Mihir Velani says:

    Dear Professor,

    I am conducting a study of engineering students with the John Hattie’s effect size. In the calculation of effect size, what is the simple meaning of postassessment score and preassessment score?

    Hope to read you very soon.

    Sincerely,
    Mihir Velani

  14. Kelly says:

    I am looking for research on effect size for two things.
    Flexible Seating
    Classroom Libraries
    Is there someone who has analyzed effect size of these and can suggest if either or both are worth spending the money?

  15. Beth Clavenna-Deane says:

    In 2012, Visible Learning ranked student-centered practices as an effect size of .53 on the ranking chart (Hattie, 2012). In Chapter 9, page 157, Hattie references Cornelius Wright (2007) as producing a .61 effect size of the relationship between person-centered practices and cognitive student domains and a .71 effect size for the relationship between person-centered practices and affective student domains.

    I have two questions: 1- why did the chart state a different effect size than the referenced study, especially since the long chart in the book stating all of the studies analyzed does not show any other studies analyzed. 2 – Why did the effect size ranking in 2018 change to .35?

  16. Mohammad Rashid Magsi says:

    Honorable Sir

    With profound regards we humbly request you that We are a voluntary organization which sets up work in Indus Valley Sindh, the southern part of Pakistan our project is to help and facilitate a libraries program in Sindh, with the name of “Mother of Civilization Library” We therefore anxious in collecting resource materials including any books of Professor John Hattie an internationally a well-known an education researcher and author.
    Here is a large part of schools, colleges and university aged population in Sindh towns and countryside, who love to read and know more about his work, “Visible Learning, Visible Learning for Teacher, Visible Learning for Literacy, 10 Mainframes for Visible Learning, Intelligence and Intelligence Testing and other books & Lectures DVDs”, as we are unable to purchase books due to lack of resources and fundamental facilities of libraries.
    Your donations of books can do much to stimulate and encourage the growth of learning, especially among the young generation of Sindh about it. Therefore we appeal your great institution to make a little contribution of above books on compassionate and humanitarian ground; the result would be the placement of new or used books (or equivalent educational materials) into the library for needy and destitute Students.
    Hope you will consider our humble supplication with the glance of appreciation and make small numbers of books donation for this libraries program. In case, you wish to know more about our libraries program and various facets associated with it. Please free to contact our office on all the days.
    Thanking you
    Yours Sincerely
    Rashid Anees Magsi
    Project Manager
    Library Postal Address
    Name Mother of Civilization Library
    Street Sobho Khan Magsi
    City Radhan Station Dadu
    Province Sindh
    Postal Code 76310
    Country Pakistan
    Phone 00923003609982

  17. simon says:

    Thanks for the great article, is very helpful

  18. Emily-Jane Cobbold says:

    I am a master of teaching student in Australia who was in a PhD in another area where I discovered a knack for data, observing patterns ans statistical methods. I am trying to contact Dr Hattie about using some of his data. I am interested in using a multivariate technique to identify the most effective combinations of his factors that impact performance. from my readings of many of the source studies what is missed but visible in the data is that combinations of specific factors are more powerful and also of more practical application than isolated techniques. For example, merely selecting the five greatest effect sizes in a classroom is not a statistically proven approach. In various descriptions of highly effective teachers as judged by improved student performance – none use the same approaches/techniques. Which suggests exploring combinations of every factor effect sizes have been published for on this site is a good avenue for cracking a supportable highly efficacious approach

  19. Pete Gabriella says:

    Hello Mr. Hattie,

    I would like to ask if there is a remote possibility that some of your works be translated into Hungarian?

    Thank You for all your work!

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