Research-based Strategies, Revised Edition

Research-based Strategies: Narrowing the achievement gap for under-resourced students, Revised Edition

Summary 

An all-in-one guide to academic, behavioural and community solutions! Varying levels of personal, social and material resources can create specific challenges for students as well as for schools and communities. Educators are key: Teachers are integral to the lives of under-resourced young people who can and will achieve success if we understand them – and understand how to guide and teach them. This revised edition of Research-based strategies helps us do all that and more. 

Easy-to-use

You choose the academic, behavioural or community concern or challenge. The book takes you quickly through 76 research-based strategies, their explanations and related research citations. 

Flexible

Zero in on one issue or use the book as a general guide. Teachers may modify the techniques to best suit their circumstances. Most of these strategies are effective with any student, regardless of resources. 

Fast 

An at-a-glance ‘menu’ of challenges, strategies and related research reduces your planning time and improves your effectiveness. Develop more immediate, reliable intervention strategies and address students’ challenges before they become overwhelming. 

Effect sizes 

Quantitative statements about the precise, potential effect of each strategy. 

Added effect of poverty

The added effect of poverty reflects current research about how poverty impacts effect-size measurements.