Selected Works From Dr. Robert J. Marzano and MRL
Collaborate and share solutions with other educators at MarzanoResearch.com. This section provides selected research that educators can use to support their efforts from classroom management to total school reform. These shared works can lead to greater depths of understanding and even open doors to future areas of research.
Selected Works
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Setting the Record Straight on "High Yield" Strategies
Dr. Robert J. Marzano | September 2009
Across the country there seems to be a great deal of discussion about “high-yield strategies”— classroom techniques that have research supporting their utility at enhancing student achievement. Robert J. Marzano, Setting the Record Straight on “High-Yield”Strategies, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 91, No. 01, September 2009, pp.30-37.
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Apache Professional Development Report
Mark W. Haystead | March 2010
During the 2009-2010 school year, teachers at Apache Elementary School (Farmington, NM) participated in a series of professional development workshops on Getting Serious about School Reform: Three Critical Commitments. This report summarizes the findings for ten teachers at the school.
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Representing Knowledge Nonlinguistically
Dr. Robert J. Marzano | May 2010
Students have plenty of opportunities to process information linguistically: They listen to teachers explain content, and they read and write about content.
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RISC vs Non-RISC Report
Mark W. Haystead | April 2010
This MRL report describes the findings for an analysis of data provided by the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC). A comparison was made between schools at seven districts that employ the RISC model and eight non-RISC districts on the percentages of students who scored proficient or above on state tests for reading, writing, and mathematics.
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Teaching Inference
Dr. Robert J. Marzano | April 2010
Thinking and reasoning processes—such as problem solving, decision making, and the like—have been identified as legitimate and even necessary 21st century skills.
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Summarizing to Comprehend
Dr. Robert J. Marzano | March 2010
As the most cherished skill in the world of language arts, comprehension is also crucial to understanding texts in every other subject area.
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Creating an Aligned System to Develop Great Teachers Within the Federal Race to the Top Initiative
Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Dr. Peggy Schooling, and Michael Toth | February 2010
Race to the Top will place pressure on districts to increase teacher and principal effectiveness unlike ever before. In this white paper, Dr. Marzano and his colleagues discuss how to create an aligned system to supervise, support, and develop great teachers in every classroom.
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Using Games to Enhance Student Achievement
Dr. Robert J. Marzano | February 2010
Learn specific strategies that teachers can use to get the most out of using games in the classroom.
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Meta-Analytic Synthesis of Studies Conducted at Marzano Research Laboratory on Instructional Strategies
Mark W. Haystead and Dr. Robert J. Marzano
This is a summary of 300 plus studies from Marzano Research Laboratory on instructional strategies. This report synthesizes a series of action research projects conducted between the fall of 2004 and the spring of 2009. The data used for analysis can be found in MRL's Action Research Meta-Analysis Database.
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Evaluation Study of the Effects of Promethean ActivClassroom on Student Achievement
Robert J. Marzano and Mark W. Haystead
This report describes the findings for the evaluation study of the effects of Promethean ActivClassroom on student achievement conducted by Marzano Research Laboratory (MRL). During the 2008–2009 school year, 79 teachers from 50 schools throughout the country participated in independent studies regarding the effect of Promethean ActivClassroom on student achievement.
