The Evidence is in the Design

Overview

Journal Perspect Behav Sci

Publisher Springer Nature

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2021 Oct 11

PMID 34632276

Citations 2

Authors

Janet S Twyman

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Abstract

To better understand the effectiveness of Direct Instruction (DI), the empirical base related to DI's instructional design components (explicit teaching, judicious selection and sequencing of examples) and principles (identifying big ideas, teaching generalizable strategies, providing mediated instruction, integrating skills and concepts, priming background knowledge, and providing ample review) are analyzed. Attention is given to the converging evidence supporting the design characteristics of DI, which has broad applicability across different disciplines, teaching methodologies, and perspectives.

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