Originally aired on Nine To Noon, Wednesday 17 June 2015
"A new report by world renowned education researcher, John Hattie suggests policies are increasingly about appeasing parents and have little impact on student outcomes. Professor Hattie's meta-analysis of dozens of studies, published yesterday, finds that many popular policies such as smaller class sizes, performance pay and even the numbers of teacher aides in classrooms, have little effect."
John Hattie is the director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute-University of Melbourne
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