Research
What thousands of ordinary conversations turn out to say
Every study here is built the same way: every conversation of the period, one scale across all of them, and findings that point back to the fragment they came from.
Private schools and education
What stands behind high grades
We analyzed 4,796 everyday lessons across 22 classes of one private school, compared how a lesson was built with the grades students received, and looked at what separates the stronger lessons from the weaker ones.
4,796
lessons of one school in the study
20.4%
gap between neighbouring classes of the same year, same subject
37
points between a lesson with no feedback and one with feedback as it runs
- 13 reasons a class disengages, in order of how often they occur
- Teaching practice compared across primary, middle, and senior school
- Why one format strengthens a lesson in one class and gets in the way in another