Evidence based teaching : a practical approach / Geoff Petty.

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Published: Cheltenham : Nelson Thornes, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. We need evidence-based practice, not custom and practice
  • 2. Learning is making sense, not just remembering
  • 3. Motivation
  • 4. Effect sizes : finding what works
  • 5. John Hattie's table of effect sizes
  • 6. Marzano's theory-based meta-analysis
  • 7. Extracting general principles from effect-size studies
  • 8. Feedback or 'assessment for learning' (effect size 0.81)
  • 9. Whole-class interactive teaching (effect size 0.81)
  • 10. Visual representations and graphic organisers (effect size 1.2 to 1.3)
  • 11. 'Decisions, decisions' (effect size 0.89)
  • 12. Cooperative learning
  • 13. Reciprocal teaching (effect size 0.86)
  • 14. The seven general teaching principles and PAR
  • 15. Feedback through interactive dialogue : the self-correcting classroom
  • 16. Teaching methods for the 'orientation' phase : setting the scene
  • 17. Methods to present new material
  • 18. Methods for the 'apply' phase : deep meaning from hard thinking
  • 19. Feedback methods : assessment for learning
  • 20. Methods for the 'review' and homework phases
  • 21. Teaching thinking skills and intelligence
  • 22. What do the best teachers, schools and colleges do?
  • 23. Your own evidence : reflection and experimentation
  • 24. The rational curriculum
  • 25. Management and leadership
  • 26. Evidence-based classroom management and discipline.