John Hattie
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Professor John Allan Clinton Hattie ONZM (born 1950 in Timaru
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) has been Professor of Education and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne
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, Australia
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, since March 2011. He was previously Professor of Education at the University of Auckland
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.

His research interests include 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. 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
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 on the national standards in reading, writing and maths for all primary school children in New Zealand.

Hattie finished his PhD thesis at the University of Toronto
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 in 1981.

He was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to education.

He is married to Associate Professor Janet Clinton, also at the University of Melbourne.

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