Educational Measurement (Fifth Edition), edited by Educational Measurement and produced by the National Council on Measurement in Education, is out at the end of February. It pulls together current research and guidance across the full measurement landscape. Validity. Reliability. Fairness. Interpretation. Consequences. The chapters are written by people who have spent decades arguing about this… Read More Learning, Measured Seriously
As I crawled towards the end of 2025, the hope of 2026 kept me going. I opened my laptop last week, and January abruptly arrived with the usual noise: new plans, new expectations, and a rush to make the year look bigger than the last. Rather than joining that noise, I think L&D teams would… Read More Three conversations
Reading a survey from Personio and HR Grapevine last week, this result confirms what many suspect: This single line exposes the L&D profession’s measurement crisis. When leadership rarely asks about learning effectiveness, and HR finds it among the hardest metrics to report on, we’ve created a perfect storm of irrelevance. Nobody’s asking because nobody expects… Read More Performance first
When Led Zeppelin first performed Stairway to Heaven, the audience reaction wasn’t what you’d expect: “They were all bored to tears waiting to hear something they knew” John Paul Jones It takes a LONG time for people to realise what you’re doing is different, unique, and challenging the norms. New ideas might not be good… Read More New ideas
It is rare that people purposely act negatively. We perceive their negativity from ‘our’ context; our job is to understand their context. They will have a positive intent but we don’t necessarily see it. Understanding why they think something is positive is the first step to building empathy. However wrong we feel someone’s views, actions,… Read More Positive intent