We did explore
some variation in different approaches to teaching early reading, and followed up the results of two cohorts of pupils in the phonics check and Key Stage 1.
Not exact matches
A Paleo
approach is the starting point, sure, but there is a huge
variation in the way people respond to
different foods.
These findings also illustrate vividly the problem introduced by the Coleman analytical
approach: finding that measured teacher differences have limited ability to explain
variations in student achievement is very
different from concluding that schools and teachers can not powerfully affect student outcomes.
The variety of educational institutions found
in the UK now, with three
different kinds of academies, four major types of maintained schools, as well as independent and grammar schools, means there is even more distinct
variations in approaches to teaching and learning, ethos and goals.
This
variation creates opportunities for learning — identifying both what works and what doesn't among
different approaches — but only if there are structures and capacity
in place to do so.
The cross-country comparative
approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit institutional
variation that does not exist within countries; draw on much larger
variation than usually available within any country; reveal whether any result is country - specific or more general; test whether effects are systematically heterogeneous
in different settings; circumvent selection issues that plague within - country identification by using system - level aggregated measures; and uncover general - equilibrium effects that often elude studies
in a single country.
This type of knowledge also refers to teachers» understanding of
variations in students»
different approaches to learning.
While typically you see a bevy of bullet hell shooter
variations due to the franchise's origins, you also see some quite
different approaches such as what XSEED Games has localized
in the form of Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity.
JS: One of the things that struck me the most
in your exhibition at Hollis Taggart is the
variation across each painting, the way forms are
approached with
different kinds of marks — thinner and thicker areas, translucent and opaque.
In practice, courts take
different approaches to
variations on this scenario.
Considering the
different nature and pace of the economic development
approaches taken across urban China, and the
variations in the cultural values driving work - family balance, it is not surprising to see regional differences
in both WFC and WFB.