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Sources of Shifts in Pre-Service Teachers' Patterns of Attention: The Roles of Teaching Experience and of Observational Experience (2017)
Journal Article
Simpson, A., Vondrová, N., & Žalská, J. (2018). Sources of Shifts in Pre-Service Teachers' Patterns of Attention: The Roles of Teaching Experience and of Observational Experience. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 21(6), 607-630. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10857-017-9370-6

A key requirement of successful initial teacher education is the development of professional vision, which includes shifting attention to features of the situation relevant to the specialized goals of teaching. Existing research hints at the value of... Read More about Sources of Shifts in Pre-Service Teachers' Patterns of Attention: The Roles of Teaching Experience and of Observational Experience.

The misdirection of public policy: comparing and combining standardised effect sizes (2017)
Journal Article
Simpson, A. (2017). The misdirection of public policy: comparing and combining standardised effect sizes. Journal of Education Policy, 32(4), 450-466. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2017.1280183

Increased attention on ‘what works’ in education has led to an emphasis on developing policy from evidence based on comparing and combining a particular statistical summary of intervention studies: the standardised effect size. It is assumed that thi... Read More about The misdirection of public policy: comparing and combining standardised effect sizes.