Dylan Wiliam
@dylanwiliam
Teacher, researcher, writer, mostly interested in the power of education to transform lives and how to do it better.
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http://www.dylanwiliam.org 14-01-2009 11:28:28
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Does anyone know a simple tool for those in schools who want to work in an evidence-informed way to evaluate the evidence that interventional studies provide? It's a topic adrie visscher and I are thinking of exploring (we have the paper by Stephen Gorard and the book by Daniel Willingham).
When Anna Stokke blocked me after this I reached out via email.
I'm pleased to note we've had a quite reasonable exchange with some humility from both parties & you can look for Anna to be a guest on our podcast sometime this summer.
Don't trap yourself in an Us v. Them mindset.
TenaciousKat (find me on 🧵s) Dylan Wiliam Tanya Anne Serry PhD 𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻 I haven’t listened as yet and will do so. But (a) I don’t think the fact that there’s a continuum of ease changes the biological secondary argument (there is a spread of oral language abilities too) and (b) good readers are not necessarily good spellers.
Another meta-analysis finds that oral-only exercises aren't terribly effective or important for teaching reading. Here's the latest. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Here's my lay-person's explanation of the history of phonemic awareness and the debate: hechingerreport.org/proof-points-c…