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Explicit teaching strategies

Overview

  • Influence: Explicit teaching strategies
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Characterized by a series of supports or scaffolds, whereby students are guided through the learning process with clear statements about the purpose and rationale for learning the new skill, clear explanations and demonstrations of the instructional target, and supported practice with feedback until independent mastery has been achieved. Explicit teaching strategies typically involve instruction, guided practice, and teaching to mastery.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 21
  • Number of studies: 5,976
  • Number of students: 1,493,295
  • Number of effects: 13,333
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.63
  • Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

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
Dissertation Rosenbaum USA A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of educational treatment programs for emotionally disturbed students 1983 Treatment programs for emotionally disturbed students 235 0 99 1.02
Conference paper O'Neal USA Cerebral palsy: the meta-analysis of selected interventions 1985 With cerebral palsy students 31 0 96 0.81
Sex Roles Baenninger & Newcombe USA The role of experience in spatial test performance: A meta-analysis 1989 Spatial strategies on spatial outcomes 26 0 26 0.51
Linguistic Research Kim, Wi, & Kim Korea A meta-analysis of different instructional effects on English underachievers. 2015 Teaching methods with underachievers 47 0 47 0.70
Research in Science Education Aguilera & Perales-Palacios Spain What Effects Do Didactic Interventions Have on Students' Attitudes Towards Science? A Meta-Analysis 2018 Multiple teaching methods 24 3,884 24 0.54
Educational Research Review Snyder, Fong, Painter, Pittard, Barr, & Patall USA Interventions for academically underachieving students: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 2019 Interventions for underachieving students 38 1,261 99 0.45
Conference paper King-Sears, Stefanidis, Evmenova, Rao, Mergen, Owen, & Strimel USA Achievement of Learners Receiving UDL Interventions Compared to Control Conditions: A Meta-Analysis. 2022 Universal Design 22 0 50 0.43
Educational Research Review Snyder, Fong, Painter, Pittard, Barr, & Patall USA Interventions for academically underachieving students: A systematic review and meta-analysis 2019 Interventions for underachieving students 51 0 99 0.45
International Journal of Instruction Sugano & Nabua Phillipines Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Teaching Methods on Academic Performance in Chemistry. 2020 Teaching methods in chemistry 51 0 51 1.21
Education and Training in Mental Retardation Forness & Kavale USA Strategies to improve basic learning and memory deficits in mental retardation: a meta-analysis of experimental studies 1993 Teaching with low ability students 268 8,000 819 0.71
Dissertation White USA The effects of cognitive learning strategies interventions with learning disabled students, in the topical areas of reading and mathematics 1997 Cognitive learning strategies in math with LD 72 8,527 831 0.20
Dissertation White USA The effects of cognitive learning strategies interventions with learning disabled students, in the topical areas of reading and mathematics 1997 Cognitive learning strategies in reading with LD 222 15,080 1,796 0.39
Book Scheerens & Bosker Netherlands The foundations of educational effectiveness 1997 Various strategies on achievement 228 0 545 0.20
Review of Educational Research Swanson & Hoskyn USA Experimental intervention research on students with learning disabilities: A meta-analysis of treatment outcomes 1998 Teaching with low ability students 180 38,716 1,537 0.79
Book Marzano USA A theory-based meta-analysis of research on instruction 1998 Classroom instructional techniques 4,000 1,237,000 4,000 0.65
Book Swanson USA What instruction works for students with learning disabilities? Summarizing the results of a meta-analysis of intervention studies 2000 Learning strategies for Spec Ed students 180 180,827 1,537 0.79
Language Learning Norris & Otega USA Effectiveness of L2 instruction: A research synthesis and quantitative meta-analysis 2000 Focused instruction vs. Minimal exposure to learning in L2 49 0 78 0.96
Review of Educational Research Seidel & Shavelson USA Teaching Effectiveness Research in the Last Decade: Role of Theory and Research Design in Disentangling Meta-Analysis Results 2007 Teaching and learning processes 112 0 1,352 0.07
Language Learning Spada & Tomita Canada Interactions between type of instruction and type of language feature: A meta-analysis. 2010 Implicit instruction on EFL 24 0 38 0.38
Language Learning Spada & Tomita Canada Interactions between type of instruction and type of language feature: A meta-analysis. 2010 Explicit instruction on EFL 28 0 44 0.81
American Educational Research Association Kyriakides & Christoforou Cyprus A synthesis of studies searching for teacher factors: Implications for educational effectiveness theory. 2011 Teaching and learning processes 88 0 165 0.29
TOTAL/AVERAGE 5,976 1,493,295 13,333 0.59
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