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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Explicit teaching strategies

Overview

  • Influence: Explicit teaching strategies
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: Characterized by a series of supports or scaffolds, whereby students are guided through the learning process with clear statements about the purpose and rationale for learning the new skill, clear explanations and demonstrations of the instructional target, and supported practice with feedback until independent mastery has been achieved. Explicit teaching strategies typically involve instruction, guided practice, and teaching to mastery.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 13
  • Number of studies: 4,881
  • Number of students: 1,240,884
  • Number of effects: 6,474
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.64
  • Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

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
Dissertation Rosenbaum USA A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of educational treatment programs for emotionally disturbed students 1983 Treatment programs for emotionally disturbed students 235 0 99 1.02
Conference paper O'Neal USA Cerebral palsy: the meta-analysis of selected interventions 1985 With cerebral palsy students 31 0 96 0.81
Sex Roles Baenninger & Newcombe USA The role of experience in spatial test performance: A meta-analysis 1989 Spatial strategies on spatial outcomes 26 0 26 0.51
Book Scheerens & Bosker Netherlands The foundations of educational effectiveness 1997 Various strategies on achievement 228 0 545 0.20
Book Marzano USA A theory-based meta-analysis of research on instruction 1998 Classroom instructional techniques 4,000 1,237,000 4,000 0.65
Review of Educational Research Seidel & Shavelson USA Teaching Effectiveness Research in the Last Decade: Role of Theory and Research Design in Disentangling Meta-Analysis Results 2007 Teaching and learning processes 112 0 1,352 0.07
Language Learning Spada & Tomita Canada Interactions between type of instruction and type of language feature: A meta-analysis. 2010 Implicit instruction on EFL 24 0 38 0.38
Language Learning Spada & Tomita Canada Interactions between type of instruction and type of language feature: A meta-analysis. 2010 Explicit instruction on EFL 28 0 44 0.81
American Educational Research Association Kyriakides & Christoforou Cyprus A synthesis of studies searching for teacher factors: Implications for educational effectiveness theory. 2011 Teaching and learning processes 88 0 165 0.29
Research in Science Education Aguilera & Perales-Palacios Spain What Effects Do Didactic Interventions Have on Students' Attitudes Towards Science? A Meta-Analysis 2018 Multiple teaching methods 24 3,884 24 0.54
International Journal of Instruction Sugano & Nabua Phillipines Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Teaching Methods on Academic Performance in Chemistry. 2020 Teaching methods in chemistry 51 0 51 1.21
Studies in English Education Granena & Yilmaz Spain Aptitude-treatment interaction in L2 learning: A research synthesis. 2018 Explicit methods on explicit outcomes 9 0 9 1.06
International Journal of Cognitive and Language Sciences Yousefi & Nassaji Canada he Effect of Computer-Mediated vs. Face-to-Face Instruction on L2 Pragmatics: A Meta-Analysis.  2018 Explicit methods 25 0 25 1.21
TOTAL/AVERAGE 4,881 1,240,884 6,474 0.67
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