Marzano's High Yield Strategies
Similarities and Differences Enhance students' understanding of and ability to use knowledge. 45 percent gain	Summarizing and Notetaking Provide students with tools for identifying and understanding the most important aspects of what they are learning 34 percent gain	Reinforcing effort and providing recognition Teach that hard work leads to success; stimulates motivation and enhances achievement 29 percent gain
Homework and Practice Extend the school day and provides students with opportunities to refine and extend their knowledge. 28 percent gain	Nonlinguistic representations Help students understand content in a new way.  These can range from graphic organizers to physical knowledge 27 percent gain	Cooperative Learning Develop positive interdependence, accountability, interpersonal skills and small-group skills and group processing 27 percent gain
Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback Establish a direction for learning and students personalize instructional objectives.  Providing frequent feedback that is corrective in nature positively impacts student achievement. 23 percent gain	Generating and Testing Hypotheses Involve the application of knowledge and has practical applications in all curriculum areas: systems analysis, problem solving and historical investigations are three examples. 23 percent gain	Cues, Questions and Advance Organizers Help activate prior knowledge, stimulate analytical thinking and promote deeper learning. 22 percent gain

Information from Classroom Instruction that Works, Marzano, Pickering and Pollock, 2001.