John Hattie

John Allan Clinton Hattie ONZM (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. In addition to being lauded as a
leading educational expert, previously
John Hattie taught both middle school and
high school as a classroom teacher[1]
before entering graduate studies.
 John Hattie
ONZM

Hattie in November 2014

Born 1950 (age 72–73)

Timaru, New Zealand

Academic background

Alma mater University of Toronto

Thesis Decision criteria for

determining
 unidimensionality (1981)

Academic work

Doctoral students Christine Rubie-

Davies

Early life
Hattie was born in 1950 in Timaru, and
attended Timaru Boys' High School.[2][3]

Academic career
John Hattie received his PhD degree in
statistics from at the University of Toronto
in 1981 on detecting unidimensionality.[4]
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.[5]
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.

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.[6]

Hattie advised the Fifth National

Government of New Zealand on national
learning standards and performance-
related pay for teachers.[2]

Visible Learning has come under criticism

for mathematical flaws in the calculation
of effect sizes and misleading
presentation of meta-analyses in the
book.[7]

In the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours,

Hattie was appointed an Officer of the
New Zealand Order of Merit, for services
to education.[8]

Notable students of Hattie's include

Christine Rubie-Davies.[9]

He is married to Professor Janet Clinton,

also at the University of Melbourne.

References
1. "Curriculum Vitae John A. C. Hattie Mailing
Address | PDF | University | Teachers" (http
 s://www.scribd.com/document/52878488/
Cv-John-Hattie) . Scribd. Retrieved
21 September 2022.

2. Laxon, Andrew (6 February 2010).

"Standards and the professor" (https://ww
w.nzherald.co.nz/nz/standards-and-the-pro
fessor/FJRR2BNU4J34WZ5UDA53RW4OR
A/?c_id=1&objectid=10624412) . The New
Zealand Herald. Retrieved 20 December
2022.

3. "Former Timaru men honoured" (https://ww

w.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/editors-picks/5
119174/Former-Timaru-men-honoured) .
Timaru Herald. Stuff. 9 June 2011.
Retrieved 20 December 2022.

4. Hattie, John Allen (April 1981). Decision

Criteria for Determining Unidimensionality
 (https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/1
1375/6909) (Thesis).

5. "Home - e-asTTle" (https://e-asttle.tki.org.n

z/) . e-asttle.tki.org.nz. Retrieved
21 September 2022.

6. Hattie, John (2008). Visible Learning: A

Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses
Relating to Achievement. NY: Routledge.
p. 392. ISBN 978-0-415-47618-8.

7. Bergeron, Pierre-Jérôme; Rivard (Trans. ),

Lysanne (2017). "How to engage in
pseudoscience with real data: a criticism of
John Hattie's arguments in Visible Learning
from the perspective of a statistician" (htt
p://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/9475/7229) .
McGill Journal of Education Vol 52, No 1
 (2017) Bergeron. 52 (1). Retrieved
17 November 2018.

8. "Queen's Birthday honours list 2011" (http

s://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queen
s-birthday-honours-list-2011) . Department
of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 6 June
2011. Retrieved 27 June 2020.

9. Rubie, Christine (2003). Expecting the best :

instructional practices, teacher beliefs and
student outcomes (https://researchspace.a
uckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/28) (Doctoral
thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland,
University of Auckland. hdl:2292/28 (http
s://hdl.handle.net/2292%2F28) .
Bibliography
Hattie, John A. (2008). Visible Learning:
A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses
Relating to Achievement. ISBN 978-0-
415-47618-8.
Hattie, John A. (2011). Visible Learning
for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on
Learning. ISBN 978-0-415-69015-7.

Fletcher, Richard B.; Hattie, John A.

(2011). Intelligence and Intelligence
Testing (https://archive.org/details/intell
_fle_2011_00_0421) .
External links
Archive of Bio page at Auckland
University (https://web.archive.org/web/
20200217050507/http://www.educatio
n.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/staff/j.hatti
e.html)
Bio page at University of Melbourne (htt
ps://education.unimelb.edu.au/assets/p
rofiles/laureate-professor-john-hattie)

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