Summarizing
Overview
- Influence: Summarizing
- Domain: Student Learning Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- Influence Definition: Summarizing refers to the skill of condensing information from a text, lesson, or discussion into a shorter form by identifying and articulating the main ideas and key details
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 438
- Number of students: 73,770
- Number of effects: 611
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.41
- Robustness index: 4
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature: Science of Learning | Hattie & Donoghue | Learning strategies: A synthesis and conceptual model | 2016 | Summarization | 234 | 1,914 | 234 | 0.44 | |
| Educational Research Review | Fong & Krou | LASSI's great adventure: A meta-analysis of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory and academic outcomes | 2021 | Main Ideas | 181 | 71,856 | 268 | 0.31 | |
| Remedial and Special Education | Stevens, Park & Vaughn | A review of summarizing and main idea interventions for struggling readers in grades 3 through 12: 1978–2016 | 2019 | Summarizing and main idea | 23 | NA | 109 | 0.97 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 438 | 73,770 | 611 | 0.57 | |||||