Debra Masters
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Co-author of Visible Learning into Action with John Hattie
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined July 2017
It's the moment you have all been waiting for...the No More Marking Christmas assessment! This year you get to judge your favourite Christmas film quote. AND you get to see in real time if you agree with the AI, and what the AI thinks of each quote! Read about it and take part
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6 minutes of reading with your child each day = big impact on learning outcomes
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Happy Holidays from MastersEducation. 2024 was a big year for NZ education - with 2025 shaping up to be a year of acknowledging and strengthening the good things that already exist - let’s celebrate our wins and our fabulous teachers!
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Attendance can be a better predictor of a student’s drop-out risk than test scores. These Teens Were Missing Too Much School. Here's What It Took to Get Them Back https://t.co/4sw2AlpSvs
kqed.org
Since the pandemic, chronic absenteeism in the nation's K-12 schools has skyrocketed. These teens are working to get their attendance back on track.
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In 2025 we're launching our first writing assessment project for New Zealand, and continuing with our existing Australian project. To find out more, take part in our intro webinar on Tues 3 December. https://t.co/6qtyK6Kjkf
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How do you support parents in managing helpful expectations of their kids? Parental expectations have an effect size of 0.50 on student performance. Balance is key—while high expectations can motivate, too much pressure can overwhelm. Learn more: https://t.co/1y6TGtA0IL
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This is a valuable paper for jurisdictions that are making investments in literacy instructions - like New Zealand currently is.
Meta-analysis of 119 studies finds that technology can improve elementary literacy instruction—especially writing—but effects were much smaller in studies with standardized rather than researcher-designed measures: https://t.co/GWai6PAEUC ($). Pre-print:
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Meta-analysis of 119 studies finds that technology can improve elementary literacy instruction—especially writing—but effects were much smaller in studies with standardized rather than researcher-designed measures: https://t.co/GWai6PAEUC ($). Pre-print:
journals.sagepub.com
Educational technology is ubiquitous, and educational technology interventions often target literacy. However, there is insufficient information about the effec...
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Back to this today. My favourite edu book of all time 🤩
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Great Minds that Don't Think Alike! Join me on March 18th @WorldEdSummit alongside Living Legends @MichaelFullan1 @john_hattie @AlmaHarris1 @Sugatam & Vivianne Robinson. @uOttawaEdu @arceducation1 @SRinconGallardo @pasi_sahlberg @JJ_Stellies
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I am delighted to be speaking at the World Education Summit - be ready for impact! #WorldEdSummit
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Fab article - and makes perfect sense!
The article "Putting Students on the Path to Learning: The Case for Fully Guided Instruction" by Richard E. Clark, Paul A. Kirschner, and John Sweller argues for fully guided explicit instruction over minimally guided approaches like pure discovery learning. The authors present
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“A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely, pedagogy is curriculum, because what matters is how things are taught, rather than what is taught.” ― Dylan Wiliam
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Having a laser-like focus on using evidence for learning will be a key message in my presentation to Ukraine authorities and schools at their Education Quality Forum on 20 September
🇨🇦 Diagnostic tests that help identify possible gaps in students' knowledge, developed by @SURGeUkraine, @MON_UKRAINE and @SQEua, are available on the All-Ukrainian Online School Platform. More in the video: https://t.co/M8gAtqtXr0
@Alinea_Ideas @CanEmbUkraine @CanadaDev
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If female public figures recorded messages for male football teams in the style of the messages recorded for the Lionesses.
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Hard copy will be released from Corwin on August 4! Ready for Action.
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Please let this argument come to an end.
No one will win the reading wars, say two reading specialists. It's time to look at the research and call a truce over the appropriate use of phonics. #EWOpinion
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The same is happening in New Zealand. It is a crisis and nothing seems to be working (so far) to get them back to school. It’s a disaster that needs urgent attention.
Totally agree, and there is a similar crisis here in UK too. It should be the number one priority to get every child in school and learning.
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