Clark, Kirschner & Sweller: 'Putting Students on the Path to Learning - The Case for Fully Guided Instruction'
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:24 am
It is great to see this article in American Educator (Spring 2012) flagged up on Twitter. It is essential information for all teachers and parents - and teacher-trainers of course:
https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files ... /Clark.pdfPutting Students on the Path to Learning
The Case for Fully Guided Instruction
By Richard E. Clark,
Paul A. Kirschner,
and John Sweller
About:Research has provided overwhelming evidence that, for everyone but experts, partial guidance during instruction is significantly less effective than full guidance.
Richard E. Clark is a professor of educational psychology, clinical research professor of surgery, and director of the Center for Cognitive Technology at the University of Southern California. Paul A. Kirschner is a professor of educational psychology at the Centre for Learning Sciences and Technolo- gies at the Open University of the Netherlands. John Sweller is an emeritus professor of education at the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. This article summarizes sections of “Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching,” by Paul A. Kirschner, John Sweller, and Richard E. Clark, which was originally published in Educational Psychologist 41, no. 2 (2006): 75–86.