Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Students Achievement
By Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, and Jane E. Pollack
From the theories presented in this chapter can draw four generalizations:
1. "Presenting students with explicit guidance in identifying similarities and differences enhances students' understanding of ability to use knowledge."
2. "Asking students to independently identify similarities and differences enhances students' understanding of and ability to use knowledge."
3. "Representing similarities and differences in graphic or symbolic form enhance students' understanding of and ability to use knowledge."
4. "Identification of similarities and differences can be accomplished in a variety of ways. The identification of similarities and differences is a highly robust activity."
Forms of identifying similarities and differences are:
- comparing;
- classifying;
- creating metaphors, and
- creating analogies.
Graphic Organizers for comparison: Venn Diagram