Comments on: “Peer-review” of Marzano’s IWB Study Report, Part II http://edinsanity.com/2009/06/03/marzano_part2/ “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:19:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Educational Insanity » Blog Archive » Peer-review of Marzano’s IWB Study, Part V http://edinsanity.com/2009/06/03/marzano_part2/comment-page-1/#comment-2945 Educational Insanity » Blog Archive » Peer-review of Marzano’s IWB Study, Part V Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:58:19 +0000 http://edinsanity.com/?p=306#comment-2945 [...] a report recently issued based on a study done by Marzano Research Laboratory.  Part I is here, Part II is here, Part III is here, and Part IV is [...] [...] a report recently issued based on a study done by Marzano Research Laboratory.  Part I is here, Part II is here, Part III is here, and Part IV is [...]

]]> By: Educational Insanity » Blog Archive » “Peer-review” of Marzano’s IWB Study, Part IV http://edinsanity.com/2009/06/03/marzano_part2/comment-page-1/#comment-1841 Educational Insanity » Blog Archive » “Peer-review” of Marzano’s IWB Study, Part IV Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:51:03 +0000 http://edinsanity.com/?p=306#comment-1841 [...] a report recently issued based on a study done by Marzano Research Laboratory.  Part I is here, Part II is here, and Part III is [...] [...] a report recently issued based on a study done by Marzano Research Laboratory.  Part I is here, Part II is here, and Part III is [...]

]]> By: Mike Scott http://edinsanity.com/2009/06/03/marzano_part2/comment-page-1/#comment-1838 Mike Scott Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:17:03 +0000 http://edinsanity.com/?p=306#comment-1838 In Marzano's case, meta-analysis is just a case of dancing the with the girl that he brought to the dance. It's the way he initially analyzed work in his in the study: A Theory-Based Meta-Analysis or Research on Instruction. His basic idea was to use meta-analysis to determine which instructional strategies could be correlated with increased rates of learning. Supposedly, he scoured the literature for research on effective practices and used meta-analytic techniques to discern which kinds of instruction got the most bang for the buck. He came up with nine of'm. Like the Promethean study, there is absolutely no peer review of the research. Didn't keep it from having legs though. If you teach in Virginia, you pretty much have to have been under a rock for a long time not to know about Marzano. I don't have any problem with strategies he talks about in "Classroom Instruction that Works", but I do have a problem with when such ideas are presented as "research based", when they really are not. Good research and sound analysis is difficult, expensive and time consuming. We can better. In Marzano’s case, meta-analysis is just a case of dancing the with the girl that he brought to the dance. It’s the way he initially analyzed work in his in the study: A Theory-Based Meta-Analysis or Research on Instruction. His basic idea was to use meta-analysis to determine which instructional strategies could be correlated with increased rates of learning. Supposedly, he scoured the literature for research on effective practices and used meta-analytic techniques to discern which kinds of instruction got the most bang for the buck. He came up with nine of’m. Like the Promethean study, there is absolutely no peer review of the research. Didn’t keep it from having legs though. If you teach in Virginia, you pretty much have to have been under a rock for a long time not to know about Marzano.

I don’t have any problem with strategies he talks about in “Classroom Instruction that Works”, but I do have a problem with when such ideas are presented as “research based”, when they really are not. Good research and sound analysis is difficult, expensive and time consuming. We can better.

]]> By: Educational Insanity » Blog Archive » “Peer-review” of Marzano’s IWB Study Report, Part III http://edinsanity.com/2009/06/03/marzano_part2/comment-page-1/#comment-1831 Educational Insanity » Blog Archive » “Peer-review” of Marzano’s IWB Study Report, Part III Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:08:15 +0000 http://edinsanity.com/?p=306#comment-1831 [...] [NOTE: this is the third in a series of posts about a report recently issued based on a study done by Marzano Research Laboratory.  Part I is here and Part II is here.] [...] [...] [NOTE: this is the third in a series of posts about a report recently issued based on a study done by Marzano Research Laboratory.  Part I is here and Part II is here.] [...]

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