Classroom discussion
Overview
- Influence: Classroom discussion
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Feedback
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: A form of instruction in which students are invited to speak about the topic at hand. It involves much more than a teacher asking a class a question, then another, etc., but involves students discussing with each other, often prompted from an open and not closed set of questions. Provides a classroom environment that gives all students the opportunity to speak and learn from each other.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 1
- Number of studies: 42
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 42
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.82
- Robustness index: 1
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Educational Psychology | Murphy, Wilkinson, Soter & Hennessey | USA | Examining the Effects of Classroom Discussion on Students' Comprehension of Text: A Meta-Analysis | 2009 | Fostering classroom discussion | 42 | 0 | 42 | 0.82 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 42 | 0 | 42 | 0.82 | |||||