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Beesley, Andrea D., Ed.; Apthorp, Helen S., Ed. – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2010
Background: The current study updates and extends the original research synthesis of effective instructional strategies presented in "Classroom Instruction that Works" ("CITW"; Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001). That work identified nine instructional strategies for improving academic achievement and synthesized findings from previous…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Homework, Educational Strategies, Recognition (Achievement)
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Wilberschied, Lee; Berman, Peiyan M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
To investigate differences in achievement in foreign language listening comprehension, 61 students in a Foreign Language in an Elementary School (FLES) program were studied during instruction using video clips from authentic Chinese TV broadcasts in two advance organizer conditions. The first type of advance organizer consisted of written words…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension, FLES
Kirkland, C. Eric; And Others – 1995
In view of the dramatic increase in the use of television in the classroom, this study examines whether television captioning, technological enhancements to captioning like highlighting key concepts, and the presence or absence of other "advance organizers" in the classroom affect the comprehension and preferences of students with learning…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Captions, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Measurement