Klaus Nielsen’s research while affiliated with Aarhus University and other places

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COVID-19 pandemic, ADHD, social desirability, student anxiety and personality disorders
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March 2023

Nordic Psychology

Klaus Nielsen



Blind spots in visible learning: A critique of John Hattie as an educational theorist

August 2021

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5 Citations

Nordic Psychology

In recent years, John Hattie’s book Visible Learning (2009) has greatly influenced educational practitioners and policymakers. The visible learning approach has been deemed “the Holy Grail of teaching” (Mansell, 2008), and Hattie has been called the “messiah” of educational research (Evans, 2012). In this article, we outline some of the significant methodological problems embedded in Hattie’s work and relate them to his theoretical stance. We argue that his focus on single causal factors causes him to disregard important dimensions in educational practice. Furthermore, by analyzing parts of the primary research and the meta-analysis upon which Hattie grounds his conclusions, we find both serious methodological challenges and validity problems. We relate these problems to the technological rationality that informs Hattie’s work and implicitly constitutes his theoretical approach. Finally, we outline, among other things, how questions of human agency and intentionality for attending school become marginalized as the broader consequences of using Hattie’s approach to institutionally organize teaching processes. Another consequence of Hattie’s work is that educational research begins with questions of methods rather than research into schools’ everyday teaching practices.


McMindfulness in the Era of Accelerated Life
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May 2021

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3 Citations

International Review of Theoretical Psychologies

This article addresses how we are to understand mindfulness as a cultural phenomenon and why it has changed so little of what it originally set out to address. In the article, it will be argued that we need to understand the development of mindfulness as a part of the progression of neoliberalism. Central in the analysis of neoliberalism stands Harvey’s concept of accumulation by dispossession (2003, 2007) helping us understanding the transformations mindfulness has made from being a part of a religious practice to becoming a product in the modern health discourse through processes of privatizing and commodification. Finally, the article discusses if mindfulness contains critical potentials for change.

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Measured lives in educational psychology

May 2021

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International Review of Theoretical Psychologies

Why is the work of educational researcher John Hattie’s work so popular today? This is the question we will try to answer in this paper. Based on a very large empirical database, Hattie calculates the effects of numerous educational interventions and factors influencing student achievements. Despite documented methodological flaws in his work, Hattie’s work keep attracting the attention of policy makers, teachers and educational researchers all over the world. We propose to understand thepopularity of Hattie’s work in relation to the ongoing debate about the legitimation of schooling – using Habermas’ (1976) work Legitimation Crisis as point of departure. Our claim is that Hattie is offering a theoretical synthesis of effective teaching as a way to legitimize modern schooling. However, there are a number of problems with this synthesis, most notably that it does not include the pupils’ intentions for participating.

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... IKIP Siliwangi is a higher education institution that is committed to improving the quality of student learning. In this context, the implementation of Hattie's Visible Learning evaluation model can provide valuable insights into the factors that most influence learning (Hattie, 2008, Hattie., J. & Ziere., 2019, Nielsen & KlitmØller, 2021, Lipsch-Wijnen & Dirkx , 2022. ...

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Hattie's Visible Learning Evaluation Model in Learning Strategies and Publication of Scientific Work of IKIP Siliwangi Students
Blind spots in visible learning: A critique of John Hattie as an educational theorist
  • Citing Article
  • August 2021

Nordic Psychology

... Hence, I will try to use the already mentioned criteria and point towards three issues to be reckoned with in terms of contextualizing mindfulness and remind ourselves of the diversity involved in understanding it as a concept. As a departure, I will use McMahan and Braun (2017) and Nielsen (2021) both exploring the historical background and contemporary use of the concept of mindfulness. ...

McMindfulness in the Era of Accelerated Life

International Review of Theoretical Psychologies