John Hattie 's Synthesis Of Approximately 800 Meta Analysis Studies

This chapter in The Skillful Teacher on classroom climate talks about a lot of different thing that fall under three categories: Community and Mutual Support, Confidence and Risk taking, and Influence and Control. I will speak about how my mentor teacher creates one aspect from each category in her classroom. The first category community and mutual support describes “the degree of inclusion, affiliation and mutual support students feel with one another” (330). I feel that Ms. Curran does good job at creating a classroom climate that values “Group identity and responsibility and interdependence”. Students are working with partner every day during class. Ms. Curran often reminds students that they must work with their partner and to ask their partner questions before they ask her. One example is that during a class I have seen her check in on a partner group and see that one student know the answer and the other is asking about that same question. She will walk away and tell them to ask their partner. This is also very clear during activities like discovery where students are figuring thing out for themselves before it is taught to them in formal way. They only have their partner to ask question and figure things out with Ms. Curran and myself purposefully try to not be very helpful. So like the jigsaw, discovery’s “structure forces interdependence because students must rely on their peers to learn certain material” (334)

Today’s education system is challenged with creating and incorporating the most effective and meaningful methodological and conceptual curriculum designs to date. One of the key challenges is to design curriculums that facilitate understanding, retention, and generalization (Bulgren, Deshler, & Lenz, 2007, p. 121-122). However, there is no single way to overcome these challenges due to the variances and complexities within each content area. These, along with the demands of meeting high stakes testing, and the endless revolving door of performance standards, places teachers in a constant state of turmoil as they seek to create coexistence between student achievement and rigorous and challenging standards. One strategy being implemented

My area of interest deals with teacher efficacy in STEM education. The article I have chosen discusses issues related to teacher efficacy, standardizing STEM education, using educational theories, pedagogical approaches, increasing teacher capacity and supports provided to teachers in STEM education. This topic is relevant because it supports the idea of building the efficacy of educators in STEM that is needed to prepare our students for the 21st century global workforce.

As a SETA member I have participated twice as a workshop presenter for the annual STEM Workshop Conferences, “Expanding Your Horizons,” and the “Latino Youth Leadership Academy.” These conferences entitle grade school students to expose themselves to science workshops; raising awareness of higher education in the STEM field, which is an important advocacy I

In the last few years, unarmed African American civilians were gunned down by police officials. These encounters left the community feeling vulnerable to police violence and caused them to lose trust in the officers' and the justice system. Nordberg, Crawford, Praetorius, and Hatcher (2016), article entitled "Exploring Minority Youth's Police Encounters: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta-synthesis" performed a qualitative interpretive meta-synthesis to capture the experiences of the minority communities through the voices of the minority youth in describing their encounters with police officials (p. 137). In this study, nine articles were analyzed that revealed five common themes associated with the youth experiences with police officials. Those themes were identified as dangerous, controlling, prejudice, ineffective and dehumanization (Nordberg et al., 2016, p.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that all infants breastfeed exclusively until six months old to achieve optimum growth. Despite this recommendation, only one out of every three children are exclusively breastfed for the first six months. This includes countries that have a high rate of breastfeeding initiation. Recent data has shown that the exclusive breastfeeding rates over the last 15 years have only risen about six per cent, from 33% to 39%. Breask milk protects children against childhood illnesses such as gastroenteritis, respiratory tract infections, otitis media, atopic dermatitis, asthma, and SIDS.

Just like in any other profession or aspect of life, there are many myths that threaten education in public schools. Many people believe that teachers are the most important influence in a student’s academic achievement. In reality, educators have a very little influence in student achievement compared to other influences in the students’ lives that is out of the teachers control. It has been proposed that teachers don’t need to go to school to learn how to educate, they just need knowledge of the subject matter. This could be extremely destructive to student learning because they would not have the proper skills to instruct a classroom. Another common misconception is that instructors in

Hutton and Hassan (2007) use systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate late versus early cord clamping following childbirth. The intent of this paper is to appraise that work using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Mata-Analysis: The PRISMA Statement (Moher, Liberati, Tetzloff, & Altman, 2009) and methods found in Evidence-based practice in nursing & healthcare: A guide to best practice (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015).

In their meta-analysis, Treadwell and colleagues reviewed post–gastric bypass complications in six studies that included a total of 131 patients. No operation related hospital deaths occurred, but one death occurred in a child 9 months after gastric bypass who contracted severe Clostridium difficile colitis and experienced multisystem organ failure. Shock, pulmonary embolism, postoperative bleeding, severe malnutrition, and bowel obstruction occurred postoperatively, but because of variability in the way these complications were reported, the authors of the meta-analysis were unable to calculate actual incidences. Protein-calorie malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency were also reported, but their overall incidence in adolescents was unclear

BrickLAB products hinge on the idea that important concepts blossom when they are taught alongside fun and engaging hands-on activities. By utilizing manipulative-based learning with our signature “perfect brick”, these series of innovative curriculum work to promote academic success, improve test scores, increase attendance rates and instill a lifelong love of STEM. Based upon Bloom’s Taxonomy and 21st Century Skills in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and innovation, BrickLAB ensures student readiness with its exploration of a wide range of STEM-based topics.

Members of the DCHBCUAA have designed and organized an instructional hands-on STEM workshop for students in grades 10-12. The workshop is designed to increase

Meta-analysis has been much debated and criticized since its creation, and it has been argued that systematic reviews are superior. The present study examined the reverse idea – that meta-analysis is the superior method. A literature search was conducted of meta-analysis studies for psychotherapy within the PsycINFO database. The resulting studies were further examined and classified as either primary articles or secondary articles. Primary articles were further examined for secondary articles associated with them. It was found that there was some criticism within the literature. The results were compared to a study of systematic review literature conducted at the same time. The

This study is quantitative because it looks at a large group of people based on scale based on observed indicators. It is also observational because, as I previously stated the scale is based on observed indicators, and looks at independent and dependent variables. Lastly, this study is also longitudinal because, it repeatedly observed the independent variables over time.

The United States Department of Education is committed to ensuring that all students have access to a quality Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education (“Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math”, n.d.). Despite this commitment, reports indicate a decline in STEM proficiency as well as a lack of qualified teachers to respond to the deficiency (Holdren, Lander, & Varmus, 2009). The lack of qualified STEM teachers has resulted in critical shortage areas in many districts across the United States, prompting policy reform allowing alternative certification pathways to alleviate shortages (“Alternative Routes”, n.d.). Even with a reduction in critical shortage areas, preliminary reports continue to show little or no

Following Shadish, Cook and Campbell (2002), there are two standard methods to calculate effect size measures in a meta-analysis study, depending on the scale of the outcome variables. The standardized mean difference statistic (d) is used to computer the effect size for continuous outcome variables, whereas it employs the odds ratio for categorical outcome variables.