Educational+Techniques+Grades

http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/what-works-in-education-hatties-list-of-the-greatest-effects-and-why-it-matters/

=What works in education – Hattie’s list of the greatest effects and why it matters=

I have been a fan of John Hattie’s work ever since I encountered //Visible Learning//. Hattie has done the most exhaustive meta-analysis in education. Thanks to him, we can gauge not only the relative effectiveness of almost every educational intervention under the sun but we can compare these interventions on an absolute scale of effect size.

Here is the rank-ordered list of the top effect sizes, with a half-dozen removed by me because they either refer to programs unknown outside of Australia & New Zealand – Hattie’s home base – or they refer to sub-sets of students (e.g. the learning disabled). And I am going to provide a bit of suspense with this list. I want you to guess __which two factors come next__ after what is listed below; you’ll see why I wanted to add a bit of intrigue by the end. (I have also starred the factors that have an effect size of .7 or greater since these are significant gains):


 * Student self-assessment/self-grading*
 * Response to intervention*
 * Teacher credibility*
 * Providing formative assessments*
 * Classroom discussion*
 * Teacher clarity*
 * Feedback*
 * Reciprocal teaching*
 * Teacher-student relationships fostered*
 * Spaced vs. mass practice*
 * Meta-cognitive strategies taught and used
 * Acceleration
 * Classroom behavioral techniques
 * Vocabulary programs
 * Repeated reading programs
 * Creativity programs
 * Student prior achievement
 * Self-questioning by students
 * Study skills
 * Problem-solving teaching
 * Not labeling students
 * Concept mapping
 * Cooperative vs individualistic learning
 * Direct instruction
 * Tactile stimulation programs
 * Mastery learning
 * Worked examples
 * Visual-perception programs
 * Peer tutoring
 * Cooperative vs competitive learning
 * Phonics instruction
 * Student-centered teaching
 * Classroom cohesion
 * Pre-term birth weight
 * Peer influences
 * Classroom management techniques
 * Outdoor-adventure programs