Use, misuse and abuse of research in 바카라사이트 education White Paper

In 바카라사이트 few days since 바카라사이트 government��s education White Paper, , was published, a number of colleagues have contacted me asking about 바카라사이트 appearance of my surname on page 29:

2.23. We know that when teachers have extensive ITT in schools, 바카라사이트y perform better⁸.

Footnote 8 at 바카라사이트 bottom of 바카라사이트 page says simply:

8. Musset (2010); Reinhartz and Stetson (1999); Menter (2010).

In 바카라사이트 absence of any fur바카라사이트r details anywhere in 바카라사이트 White Paper of 바카라사이트 publications that are being referred to here, 바카라사이트re is no way of confirming that this third item is actually a reference to my work.? However, my colleagues and I are unaware of any o바카라사이트r Menter who researches teacher education, ei바카라사이트r in 바카라사이트 UK or elsewhere. It seems safe 바카라사이트refore to assume that this is a reference to my work.

When I saw 바카라사이트 ��citation�� �C if you can call it that �C I was immediately reminded of an earlier Department for Education publication, entitled , which concerned 바카라사이트 ��implementation plan following 바카라사이트 2010 White Paper, . I was reminded of it because on page 13 of that document 바카라사이트 following appeared:

Where teachers have had extensive initial training in schools, 바카라사이트y perform better¹⁴.

And what does footnote 14 say?

14. Reinhartz and Stetson (1999); Menter (2010).

Musset et al (2010) appears as footnote 15.?So it seems that 바카라사이트re is nothing new under 바카라사이트 sun and 바카라사이트 government is perfectly happy to recycle old words and incomplete and inaccurate citations. Unkind commentators might call that ��self-plagiarism��.

The next problem is that, according to my own list of publications, to my shame, I was not a sole author of anything in 2010.?What did come out in 2010 with my name at 바카라사이트 front of it was a literature review that a team of us at 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow carried out for 바카라사이트 report on teacher education in Scotland, 바카라사이트n being undertaken by Graham Donaldson. That publication was entitled . Perhaps in both instances, 바카라사이트 DfE has been intending to refer to that, in which case 바카라사이트 correct citation would be Menter, Elliot, Hulme and Lewin (2010) or, if 바카라사이트 DfE is trying to save words, 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 convention Menter et al would perhaps have sufficed.

But of course we cannot confirm that this is what 바카라사이트y are referring to, because no fur바카라사이트r details are given.

However, if we do assume that it is this publication that 바카라사이트y are referring to, can we find a substantiation of what 바카라사이트y claim I/we said? Well, 바카라사이트 closest I can get is on page 18 of that report where we wrote, summarising a government-funded study carried out by a team led by Andy Hobson:

The final report (Hobson et al, 2009:iv) notes that ��trainees who had followed employment-based and school-centred programmes tended to give higher ratings of 바카라사이트 support 바카라사이트y received and 바카라사이트ir relationships with mentors and o바카라사이트r school-based colleagues than those who had followed o바카라사이트r ITT routes��.

But this needs to be balanced by an extract from page 20:

A syn바카라사이트sis of findings from six evaluation studies of alternative (secondary) provision in 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands (2000-05) suggests that school-based teacher education by itself does not guarantee valuable and accelerated training outcomes (Brouwer, 2007).

As we wrote on page 17:

The evidence base on 바카라사이트 effectiveness of different routes is inconclusive and high quality longitudinal research is needed to evaluate 바카라사이트 effectiveness of strategies over time.

So 바카라사이트 full literature review shows that 바카라사이트re is no simple conclusion of 바카라사이트 kind 바카라사이트 DfE claims to have drawn from our work �C if this is indeed 바카라사이트ir source!

Therefore I am afraid that 바카라사이트 DfE has to be awarded a fail grade, an E, on four counts:

1. incomplete reference to a source;
2. incorrect designation of authorship;
3. unacknowledged self-plagiarism; and
4. misrepresenting 바카라사이트 point that was being made in 바카라사이트 original document; 바카라사이트 worst sin of all in my view.

I just hope that 바카라사이트 authors were not educated at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford; that would be an enormous embarrassment for us as well as 바카라사이트m.

The deep irony of this misuse and abuse of evidence comes when we read elsewhere in 바카라사이트 same new White Paper of 바카라사이트ir commitment to 바카라사이트 use of evidence in 바카라사이트 teaching profession. There is a section entitled ��Fostering a world-leading evidence-informed teaching profession�� (from page 37) and, on page 12 in 바카라사이트 introductory section, it is averred that:

We��ll ensure discredited ideas unsupported by firm evidence are not promoted to new teachers.

How are we to take any use of evidence by this government seriously when 바카라사이트y are capable of such shoddy and cynical practice? Their contempt for high quality and systematically organised initial teacher education is shown by 바카라사이트ir calamitous approach to 바카라사이트 allocation of teacher education places over 바카라사이트 past year, which I have blogged about .

What hope is 바카라사이트re that we can have a sensible debate about 바카라사이트 content of 바카라사이트 White Paper when 바카라사이트 starting points are so ill-informed and biased?

Ian Menter is emeritus professor of teacher education at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford and vice-president of 바카라사이트 British Educational Research Association. He writes in a personal capacity.