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Instructional Strategies and Research Support

Instructional Strategies and Research Support. REL Central at Marzano Research Laboratory. Objectives. Informed Consumer of research Where can I find research-/evidence-based strategies? How do I know if I can trust a strategy? . How do you know if a strategy has support? . Websites.

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Instructional Strategies and Research Support

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  1. Instructional Strategiesand Research Support REL Centralat Marzano Research Laboratory

  2. Objectives • Informed Consumer of research • Where can I find research-/evidence-based strategies? • How do I know if I can trust a strategy?

  3. How do you know if astrategy has support?

  4. Websites Click on links to access sites.

  5. Informed Consumer • How can you be sure? Guidelines for evaluating the research and quality of an instructional strategy

  6. Guidelines *Adapted from Boruch et al. (2003).

  7. 1. What is the quality of evidence?What is the research design, and how much detail is there? • Continuum of research designs that range from descriptive to randomized control trials (RCTs) Describe Association Cause Descriptive Correlation Experimental

  8. 1. What is the quality of evidence?What is the research design, and how much detail is there? • Detail should be enough so that it can be replicated without errors • Materials needed • Steps of strategy • Time length or limit • Level of training needed to implement it • Ways to measure effectiveness

  9. 2. What is the quantity of evidence? Has this been studied more than once? • Replication is a part of establishing confidence in findings • More citations and instances may mean the strategy is better supported

  10. 3. How similar are participants in the study to the intended students that will be exposed to the strategy? Has it been used with students similar to mine? • External validity refers to how well the results of a study can be generalized to those students • Do your students “match” those in the study? • Never perfect match • Grade-level, Age, SES, Gender, Race/Ethnicity

  11. Guidelines • What is the quality of evidence? What is the research design, and how much detail is there? • What is the quantity of evidence? Has this been studied more than once? • How similar are participants in the study to the intended students that will be exposed to the strategy? Has it been used with students similar to mine?

  12. Using the Guidelines Reinforcement: Praise

  13. 1. What is the quality of evidence? What is the research design, and how much detail is there? • Specific Behavior Praise • Student name • Describe behavior • Verbal praise Haydon, T., & Musti-Rao, S. (2011). Effective use of behavior-specific praise: A middle school case study. Beyond Behavior, 20(2), 31-38.

  14. 2. What is the quantity of evidence? Has this been studied more than once? • Within the introduction, the authors describe 6 other studies that used specific-behavior praise • Search on websites and scholarly sources results in numerous results. • What Works Clearinghouse • Focus on Effectiveness

  15. 3. How similar are participants in the study to the intended students that will be exposed to the strategy? • Students • Eighth-graders • School of 700 • 92% FRL • 55% White, 42% African-American • 11% transient • Did not meet AYP Has it been used with students similar to mine?

  16. Summary • Using the guidelines can be a way to understand research findings • Various websites have evaluated instructional strategies

  17. *ESs from Hattie, J. (2009). Visible Learning. NY: Routledge

  18. Reference Boruch, R., et al. (2003). Identifying and implementing educational practices supported by rigorous evidence: A user friendly guide. U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. Retrieved from: http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/rigorousevid/rigorousevid.pdf

  19. Contact Information • www.relcentral.org • @relcentral • Ask A Rel:   • a collaborative reference desk service provided by the ten regional educational laboratories (REL) that functions much in the same way as a technical reference library. • It provides references, referrals, and brief responses in the form of citations on research based education questions.

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