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Say hello to Hollywood Nothing spells murder and intrigue like film noir, and former Year 12 student Nicholas Rickard, who graduated from Northote High School last year, has captured the genre perfectly. His short film The Wrong Step is part of the 2009 Top Screen exhibition, and is a black and white evocation of “the double games of a private investigator”. Top Screen is on at ACmi until 7 May. Photo by Les O’Rourke Shine APRIL 2010 49
ReseARCH Visible learning: what’s good for the goose… Research by John Hattie suggests that what works best for students is what works best for teachers. Professor John Hattie recently visited Victoria to discuss his latest book, Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement. His book is a culmination of 15 years of research incorporating more than 50,000 studies and over 800 metaanalyses involving millions of students and represents the largest collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. The aim of the book is not to overwhelm the reader with the wealth of research; rather it builds an exploratory story about the influences on student learning and then defends the nature and value of this story through the research evidence. The overall message in this book is the importance of “visible teaching” and “visible learning”. Hattie suggests that visible teaching and learning occurs when learning is the explicit goal: when there is feedback given and sought and when there are active, passionate, and engaging people, including teachers, students, and peers participating in the act of learning. Hattie points out that the main feature of the research evidence is that the “biggest effects on student learning occur when teachers become learners of their own teaching, and when students become their own teachers”. This allows students to show self-regulatory attributes that are most desirable for learners, such as self-monitoring, self-evaluation, selfassessment, and self-teaching. The research evidence supports another important message: “what teachers do matters”, particularly those who teach in the most deliberate and visible way. These teachers intervene in calculated and meaningful ways to alter the direction 50 Shine APRIL 2010
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