Classroom Instruction that Works

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Classroom Instruction that Works

• Marzano, Pickering, Pollack

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Research

• From the art to the science of teaching in
  the 1970s
• Researchers began to look at the effect of
  instruction on student learning

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Research

• Began to question Colemans claim that the
  quality of schooling accounts for only 10 of the
  variance in student achievement
• Going to the best three schools or the worst
  three schools would change the outcome of test of
  100 students

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Research

• 90 influence from ability, SES, home
  environment

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Coleman Refuted

• 10 percent translate to 23 percentile points
  which is significant
• Effect of instructional techniques is measured in
  effect size

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Coleman Refuted

• Effect size is the number of standard deviations
  above or below the mean of the experimental group
  which can be expressed in percentile points
• See bell curve

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Coleman Refuted

• Other studies show strong evidence that even if
  schools do not make a difference but, individual
  teachers do

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Instructional Strategies
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Instructional Strategies

• No strategy works equally well in all situations