Research
John Hattie investigated over 800 pieces of research in order to identify the most successful strategies that promote learning. Here are the top 11...
Influence |
Effect |
Area |
Information |
Self-reported grades |
1.44 |
Student |
Recognises the power of children’s own expectations of achievement |
Piagetian programmes |
1.28 |
Student |
Teaching supports constant assimilation and accommodation |
Formative evaluation |
0.9 |
Teaching |
Teachers provided with effective feedback so they can ascertain “How am I going?” |
Microteaching |
0.88 |
Teacher |
Small group highly planned teaching |
Acceleration |
0.88 |
School |
ALP involves high expectations, stimulating, compacted, well planned teaching programmes, |
Classroom behaviour |
0.8 |
School |
Sort of obvious! |
Comprehensive Interventions for SEN |
0.77 |
Teaching |
Direct instruction and trained intervention strategies are most effective |
Teacher clarity |
0.75 |
Teacher |
Clarity of teachers speech when providing explanations and instructions |
Reciprocal teaching |
0.74 |
Teaching |
Providing children with the skills to teach too! Use of cognitive strategies - summarizing, questioning, clarifying and predicting |
Feedback |
0.74 |
Teaching |
Remember that student to teacher feedback is an important aspect of this process |
Teacher/Pupil relationships |
0.73 |
Teacher |
Are you the sort of person that a child wants to spend the day with? |