Rebecca Jesson: Meta Analysis of Inquiries

During our first Manaiakalani CoL meeting of the year we were blessed to hear from Dr. Rebecca Jesson once again from the Woolf Fisher Research Centre at Auckland University. This year, the research team is going to spend some time looking more closely at our Inquiries into our Teaching Practise as the year progresses and I am so excited to see what we are able to learn from each other in a combined effort to ensure accelerated progress for our students.

Meta Analysis of Inquiries

Rebecca Jesson

Woolf Fisher

“WFRC will analyse data and evidence from teachers’ inquiries to identified Learn Create Share practices likely to
contribute to accelerated progress for students.”

How can the power of inquiry be used to feed into the research of Woolf Fisher?  Meta Analysis will enable WF to
indicate elements of ‘what works.”

Knowledge building is part of our Inquiry process.

Meta Analysis is intended to:

1. Address persistent learning challenges at scale
2. Develop teacher knowledge based on teacher inquiry
3. Transfer researched approaches into practice at scale

What is a Meta Analysis?

1. Combined estimate of the effects of a particular approach (treatment)
2. Assessment of whether the effects are statistically significant (likely to be more than no effect 95% of the time)
3. Assessment of whether the effects are stable (does it vary a lot?)

What does this mean for us?

1. Address learning challenge
2. Building personal knowledge
3. Identify clear research informed changes to practice likely to address the challenge
4. Collect detailed evidence about changes to the teaching
5. Collect detailed evidence about how students engaged with the changed teaching
6. Gather data about effects on student learning