1. The Most Bang For the Buck
Strategies that Work
Sally Beck
1/19/11 Literacy Session

2. IOU Snacks because I’ve gone brain dead
Please help yourself to a drink

3. Classroom Instruction That Works by Marzano and Pickering
Used meta-analysis to determine effect size of instructional strategies
Goal – to identify strategies that work BEST in helping students learn
Example of data helping in development of instruction

4. The Numbers show Categories Average Effect Size Percentile Gain
Similarity and Differences
1.61 45
Summarizing & Note-taking
l.00 34
Effort and Recognition*
.80 29
Homework and Practice
.77 28
Nonlinguistic Representation
.75 27

5. And furthermore….. Category Average Effect Size Percentile Gain
Group Learning
.73 27
Objectives & Feedback
.61 23
Hypotheses
Questions, Cues and Advance Organizers
.59 22

6. So let’s aim for the top! Use question stems that require HOTS
Start with Similarities and Differences

7. Similarities & Differences Include
Compare/Contrast
Classifying
Metaphors
Analogies

8. Work Session