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    ‘We Did Vocabulary Last Year’

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  • Closing The Vocabulary Gap, Resources / October 20, 2018

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    More than Just ‘Word Walls’

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We need to talk about FRED

In Uncategorized by Alex Quigley07/02/20146 Comments

Ok, FRED isn’t anyone you know, so apologies for the misleading title of the post, but you might not have heard about FRED and you should. Then you should tell a friend …

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SamfrSam Freedman@Samfr·

One of the standard criticisms of education RCTs is that it's not ethical to deprive children in the control group of the intervention. This shows why that isn't true.

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This is why RCTs matter. The Achievement for All programme led to pupils doing worse than those in a control group. The biggest negative impact the EEF have found so far. https://schoolsweek.co.uk/achievement-for-all-had-detrimental-effect-finds-eef-trial/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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Alex Quigley

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the EEF, supporting teachers to access research evidence. After over fifteen years in the classroom, I now support from outside the school gates.

I write edubooks and I am very lucky to have a column for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine.

Alex Quigley

I am National Content Manager at the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), after fifteen years as an English teacher and school leader. The focus of my work is supporting school improvement and making research  evidence accessible and useable for teachers and school leaders.

I write books for Routledge, including the bestseller, ‘Closing the Vocabulary Gap’. Currently, I am a columnist for both TES and Teach Secondary magazine. I am a ResearchED Trustee & a member of the Chartered College of Teaching Impact Journal board.

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