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Overview
Ensuring Student Success: A Handbook of Evidence-Based Strategies
By Myles I. Friedman
A 259-page 7" X 10" hardcover. ISBN 0-9666588-1-7
Ensuring Student Success helps you employ tested strategies to deliver the education that makes all students achievers.
Key finding: All but the most psychologically handicapped students are able to achieve all of the learning objectives pursued through high school. The difference among students is the amount of instruction they may require to achieve the objectives.
(Block and Anderson, 1975 ; Bloom, 1968)
How Ensuring Student Success is organized
The book is divided into two parts:
Part 1, Key Issues, defines and clarifies critical issues and problems that need immediate attention. It then presents a fresh approach to a solution that can be applied within existing educational practices.
Part 2, Prescriptions, sets forth specific effective strategies to improve the effectiveness of your school.
- Instructional strategies that research shows to be effective in increasing academic achievement - and that can be incorporated easily into ongoing instructional programs
- How to implement corrective tutoring
- Strategies students can be taught to enable them to learn without instruction
- Identification of school factors that research shows impede instruction and learning
- Methods that have been proven effective in improving academic achievement in preschoolers
- Teaching students to innovate to advance knowledge, consumer products, the standard of living , and the quality of life
The variety of prescriptions enables educational institutions to plan their own programs, incorporating and combining the strategies that serve their purpose and accommodate local constraints.
Instructional Strategies presented in an easy-to-use format
- Title of Strategy
- Brief Orientation (With number of studies supporting the effectiveness of the strategy)
- Instructional Tactics for administering the strategy
- Illustrations of Applications (These are provided to elaborate the use of the strategy and include everyday applications, instructional applications, and subject area applications)
- References (To obtain additional detail)
About The Author
Myles I. Friedman, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer of The Institute for Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Education (EDIE) and is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Educational Research, Department of Educational Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. He has spent more than 20 years conducting and applying research to improve education. He is the author of a number of books on education, including: Rational Behavior, Teaching Reading and Thinking Skills, Improving Teacher Education: Resources and Recommendations, Teaching Higher Order Thinking Skills to Gifted Students, Taking Control: Vitalizing Education, and, with Steven P. Fisher, Handbook on Effective Instructional Strategies: Evidence for Decision-Making.
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