Although this book is over 60 years old, it is remarkably apposite for our times -- and especially in the fields of educational research and assessing pupils' understanding and progress.
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Review: Your Press Release is Breaking My Heart
Finding it hard to get the media to report your school’s achievements? You may find this guide useful.
Read MoreBook review: Talk Triggers
Talk Triggers is a word-of-mouth marketing guide with a difference: lots of examples of success stories, but also a logical analysis of why they worked.
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Book review: Teachers vs Tech?
Two cheers for this well-researched book. If I were still a head of department in a school I would buy a copy or two to lend to interested colleagues, especially NQTs, despite my criticisms.
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Book review: How Charts Lie
This is a good book to read, and definitely one you’ll want in your armoury of resources.
Read MoreBook review: Little Quick Fix: Find the theme in your data
How do you find out what main themes are coming through your qualitative research data? In short, how can you see the wood for the trees? This is the issue which this book addresses
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Book review: Leaders Eat Last
Most of us have worked for all kinds of leaders, some good, some bad, some outstanding, others dismal, plus the odd one or two whose presence or absence appears to make no difference at all. But what makes someone a great leader?
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Review: The School Fundraising Handbook
One of the chief banes of my life as a head of computing in a comprehensive school was acquiring enough money to develop the subject and to improve the experience of using education technology for everyone across the school. I only wish this book had been available when I needed it most.
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Review of Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder
I learnt more science from reading this book than I learnt in five years of secondary school.
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Review of Computing and Related Qualifications
Bob Harrison writes: “We have a computing curriculum and suite of qualifications which neither meet the needs of all pupils nor the needs of a rapidly evolving digital workplace and world.”
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Review of Dear Data
This book covers an immense range of the kinds of data that we ‘store’. The authors spent a year sending each other weekly, themed postcards. These contained not words, but pictorial representations of the data they had collected.
Read MoreReview: Trust me, I'm lying
In TMIL, Holiday demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate the news. A must-read for teachers of media or digital literacy.
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Review of The Science of Learning
This book aims to solve the difficulties teachers face in accessing educational research through the approach of presenting each research study as a double-page spread.
Read MoreTerms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel
If only all terms and conditions were presented like this!
Read MoreBook review: Excel 2019 Bible
I recently received this massive tome, the Excel 2019 Bible. Here’s what I thought of it.
Read MoreBook review: Access 2019 Bible
I recently received this hefty volume, the Access 2019 Bible. Here’s what I thought of it.
Read MoreBook review: A manifesto for excellence in schools
How do you turn a school around quickly without “gaming” the system? Rob Carpenter has done it, and shares his recipe for success.
Read MoreBook review: Understanding how we learn
This is a book that dispels a few myths about how we learn, and explains why our intuition is not always our best friend.
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Books in brief: Technically Wrong
This is one of a current spate of books about the in-built bias found in many automated processes.
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