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Classroom Instruction That Works Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

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ISBN-10: 0131195034

ISBN-13: 9780131195035

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, Jane E. Pollock, Jane E. Pollock

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This brief book presents research on the best strategies for raising student achievement through classroom instruction.Readers will find a wealth of research evidence, statistical data, and case studies. Nine categories of instructional strategies—Identifying Similarities and Differences; Summarizing and Note Taking; Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition; Homework and Practice; Nonlinguistic Representations; Cooperative Learning; Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback; Generating and Testing Hypotheses; and Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers—that maximize student learning are introduced, along with the pertinent information to understand and synthesize each.For elementary…    
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Book details

List price: $27.40
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 4/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Learn more about Jane Pollock's PD offeringsJane E. Pollock, Learning Horizon, Inc., specializes in teaching and supervising learning. She provides long-term consulting services to schools worldwide that help them improve student learning and teaching practices. Dr. Pollock is the author of "Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time" (2007) and the coauthor of "Dimensions of Learning Teacher and Training Manuals" (1996), "Assessment, Grading and Record Keeping "(1999), "Classroom Instruction" "That Works "(2001), "Improving Student Learning One Principal at a Time (2009) and Improving Student Learning by Minding the Gap (2011)". She is an adjunct faculty member for various…    

List of Figures
Applying the Research on Instruction: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Research-Based Strategies
Identifying Similarities and Differences
Summarizing and Note Taking
Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition
Homework and Practice
Nonlinguistic Representations
Cooperative Learning
Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
Generating and Testing Hypotheses
Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
Specific Applications
Teaching Specific Types of Knowledge
Using the Nine Categories in Instructional Planning
Afterword
Conversion Table for Effect Size/Percentile Gain
References
Index
About the Authors