Reciprocal teaching
Overview
- Influence: Reciprocal teaching
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: An instructional strategy which aims to foster better reading comprehension and to monitor students who struggle with comprehension. The strategy contains four steps: summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting. It is “reciprocal” in that students and the teacher take turns leading a dialogue about the text in question, asking questions following each of the four steps. The teacher can model the four steps, then reduce her or his involvement so that students take the lead and are invited to go through the four steps after they read a segment of text.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 38
- Number of students: 677
- Number of effects: 53
- Effect size: 0.74
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Review of Educational Research | Rosenshine & Meister | USA | Reciprocal teaching: A review of the research | 1994 | Reciprocal teaching | 16 | 0 | 31 | 0.74 |
| Unpublished Thesis | Galloway | USA | Improving reading comprehension through metacognitive strategy instruction: evaluating the evidence for the effectiveness of the reciprocal teaching procedure | 2003 | Reciprocal teaching on reading comprehension | 22 | 677 | 22 | 0.74 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 38 | 677 | 53 | 0.74 | |||||
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
| Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confidence Factor | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |