Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface. How we think about the impact of what we do is more important than what we do Chapter 1. I am an evaluator of my impact on student learning Chapter 2. I see assessment as informing my impact and next steps Chapter 3. I collaborate with my peers and my students about my conceptions of progress and my impact Chapter 4. I am a change agent and believe all students can improve Chapter 5. I strive for challenge and not merely ‘doing your best’ Chapter 6. I give and help students understand feedback and I interpret and act on feedback given to me Chapter 7. I engage as much in dialgoue as monologue Chapter 8. I explicitly inform students what successful impact looks like from the outset Chapter 9. I build relationships and trust so that learning can occur in a place where it is safe to make mistakes and learn from others Chapter 10. I focus on the learning and the language of learning Chapter 11. Visible Learning: a vision Bibliography

About the Author

John Hattie is Professor, Deputy Dean, and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is Chair of the Board of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, and Associate Director of the ARC-Science of Learning Research Centre.

Klaus Zierer is Professor of Education at the University of Augsburg, Germany, and Associate Research Fellow of the ESRC-funded Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the University of Oxford, UK.

Reviews

"[The book] will provide evidence-based confirmation that what we know does matter, and does have an impact on our learners. So it should be in every staff room, communal teaching area, and on the reading lists for trainee teachers."—Sally Reeve, inTuition (Society for Education and Training)