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Visible Learning MetaX™
Version 1.4 – Updated February 2026

Micro-teaching / video review of lessons

Overview

  • Influence: Micro-teaching / video review of lessons
  • Domain: Teacher
  • Sub-Domain: Teacher education
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: A technique in which a teacher delivers a short, recorded lesson that is then analyzed by the teacher and/or other teachers and leaders for the purposes of improvement. The lessons are usually videotaped to assist with the subsequent analysis.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 5
  • Number of studies: 270
  • Number of students: NA
  • Number of effects: 307
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.86
  • Robustness index: 3

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Dissertation Butcher An Experimental Investigation of the Effectiveness of a Value Claim Strategy Unit for use in Teacher Education 1981 Micro teaching on teacher skills 47 NA 47 0.55
Dissertation Bennett The search for the effective primary school teachers 1987 Micro teaching on teacher skills 112 NA 126 1.10
Conference paper Metcalf Laboratory experiences in teacher education: A meta-analytic review of research 1995 Lab experiences in teacher education on teacher skills 60 NA 83 0.70
Journal of Special Education Technology Morin, Nagro, Artis, Haas, Ganz, & Vannest Differential effects of video analysis for special educators related to intervention characteristics, dependent variables, and student outcomes: A meta-analysis of single-case research 2019 Video of special ed classes on student outcomes 24 NA 24 0.96
Conference paper Aina Videocase-based learning and analysis in teacher education: A meta-analysis. 2020 Micro teaching on teaching skills 27 NA 27 0.65
TOTAL/AVERAGE 270 NA 307 0.79
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