John Hattie
{{short description|New Zealand pedagogue and education researcher}}
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{{Infobox academic
| name = John Hattie
| honorific_suffix = ONZM
| image = John Hattie (cropped).jpeg
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1950}}
| birth_place = Timaru, New Zealand
| caption = Hattie in November 2014
| alma_mater = University of Toronto
| thesis_title = Decision criteria for determining unidimensionality
| thesis_url =
| thesis_year = 1981
| doctoral_students = Christine Rubie-Davies
Melinda Webber{{Cite thesis |last=Webber |first=Melinda |title=Identity matters: Racial-ethnic representations among adolescents attending multi-ethnic high schools |date=2011 |degree=PhD |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/21670 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2292/21670}}
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John Allan Clinton Hattie {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM|size=85%}} (born 1950) is a New Zealand education academic. He has been a professor of education and director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia, since March 2011. He was previously professor of education at the University of Auckland, the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and the University of Western Australia.
Early life
Hattie was born in 1950 in Timaru, and attended Timaru Boys' High School.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/standards-and-the-professor/FJRR2BNU4J34WZ5UDA53RW4ORA/?c_id=1&objectid=10624412 |title=Standards and the professor |first=Andrew |last=Laxon |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=2010-02-06 |accessdate=2022-12-20}}{{cite news |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/editors-picks/5119174/Former-Timaru-men-honoured |title=Former Timaru men honoured |work=Timaru Herald |publisher=Stuff |date=2011-06-09 |accessdate=2022-12-20}}
Academic career
John Hattie received his PhD degree in statistics from the University of Toronto in 1981 on detecting unidimensionality.{{Cite thesis |title=Decision Criteria for Determining Unidimensionality |url=https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/6909 |date=April 1981 |language=en |first=John Allen |last=Hattie}} His research focuses on performance indicators 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.{{Cite web |title=Home - e-asTTle |url=https://e-asttle.tki.org.nz/ |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=e-asttle.tki.org.nz}} 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.{{Cn|date=May 2024}}
Hattie undertook the largest ever synthesis of meta-analyses of quantitative measures of the effect of different factors on educational outcomes leading to his book Visible Learning.{{cite book|last=Hattie|first=John|title=Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|location=NY|isbn=978-0-415-47618-8|pages=392}}
Hattie advised the Fifth National Government of New Zealand on national learning standards and performance-related pay 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.{{cite journal|title=How to engage in pseudoscience with real data: a criticism of John Hattie's arguments in Visible Learning from the perspective of a statistician|url=http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/9475/7229|journal=McGill Journal of Education |date=2017|volume=52 |issue=1 |accessdate=17 November 2018 |last1=Bergeron |first1=Pierre-Jérôme |last2=Rivard |first2=Lysanne }}
In the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hattie was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education.{{cite web |url=https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2011 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2011 |date=6 June 2011 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=27 June 2020}}
Notable students of Hattie's include Christine Rubie-Davies and Melinda Webber.{{cite thesis |last=Rubie |first=Christine |year=2003 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Expecting the best : instructional practices, teacher beliefs and student outcomes |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/28 |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/28}}{{Cite thesis |last=Webber |first=Melinda |title=Identity matters: Racial-ethnic representations among adolescents attending multi-ethnic high schools |date=2011 |degree=PhD |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/21670 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2292/21670}}
He is married to Professor Janet Clinton, also at the University of Melbourne.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Hattie |first=John A. |title=Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement |year=2008 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-415-47618-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Hattie |first=John A. |title=Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning |year=2011 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-415-69015-7}}
- {{cite book|first1=Richard B. |last1=Fletcher |first2=John A. |last2=Hattie |title=Intelligence and Intelligence Testing|url=https://archive.org/details/intell_fle_2011_00_0421 |url-access=registration |year=2011}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20200217050507/http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/staff/j.hattie.html Archive of Bio page at Auckland University]
- [https://education.unimelb.edu.au/assets/profiles/laureate-professor-john-hattie Bio page at University of Melbourne]
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