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John Hattie: Seeing teaching through the eyes of students

Monday, May 5th, 2008

In this keynote John Hattie discussed his ideas and thoughts (supported by extensive research) on the "Influences on (student) Achievement". This was by far one of the most interesting and contentious of all the keynotes I attended at the Australian Summer School for Mathematics. I think the reason for this ...

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PISA and TIMMS

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

This keynote from the Mathematics Summer School looked at international assessment of students mathematical  ability. Sue Thomson presentation. Workshop discussion points. The following are a collection ofpoints that were raised in the workshop after Sue's presentation:

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