John Allan Clinton Hattie (born 1950) is a New Zealand education academic. He has been a professor of

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and director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the

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, Australia, since March 2011. He was previously professor of education at the

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, the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and the

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. In addition to being lauded as a leading educational expert, previously John Hattie taught both middle school and high school as a classroom teacher before entering graduate studies.

Early life

Hattie was born in 1950 in

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, and attended Timaru Boys' High School.

Academic career

His research interests include

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s and evaluation in education, as well as creativity measurement and models of teaching and learning. He is a proponent of evidence based quantitative research methodologies on the influences on student achievement. He led the team that created the Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning research and development contract and which is currently deployed by the New Zealand Ministry of Education for use in schools. Prior to his move to the University of Melbourne, Hattie was a member of the independent advisory group reporting to the New Zealand's Minister of Education on the national standards in reading, writing and maths for all primary school children in New Zealand. Hattie undertook the largest ever synthesis of

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of quantitative measures of the effect of different factors on educational outcomes leading to his book '' Visible Learning''. His PhD thesis at the

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in 1981 was about the detection of unidimensionality. Hattie advised the

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on national

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and

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for teachers. ''Visible Learning'' has come under criticism for mathematical flaws in the calculation of effect sizes and misleading presentation of meta-analyses in the book. In the

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, for services to education. He is married to Professor Janet Clinton, also at the University of Melbourne.

References

Bibliography

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External links

Archive of Bio page at Auckland University

Bio page at University of Melbourne
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