Responses to Kirschner, Sweller, Clark (2006) and the Response to Those Responses

Some blog followers might be interested in “Responses to Kirschner, Sweller, Clark (2006) and the Response to Those Responses” [Hake (2012). The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: The recent article “Putting Students on the Path to Learning: The Case for Fully Guided Instruction” [Clark, Kirschner, & Sweller (2012)] at http://bit.ly/GDjqO5 stimulated my post “Yet More From the Clark/Kirschner/Sweller Team” at http://bit.ly/GBNwrP that:

1. Pointed to my response “Language Ambiguities in Education Research” at http://bit.ly/bHTebD to “Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: : An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching” [Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (KSC )(2006) at http://bit.ly/duJVG4];

2. Initiated a thread on the March archives of PhysLrnR at http://bit.ly/GJ63ik which had grown to 14 posts on 23 March 2012, one of which was by:

3. Noah Podolefsky who called attention to the response of Hmelo-Silver, Duncan, & Chinn (2007) at http://bit.ly/aKUD5s to KSC (2006), and included Hmelo-Silver et al.'s complete abstract. Following Podolefsky I call attention (with complete abstracts) to the response of:

a. Schmidt, Loyens, van Gog, & Paas (2007) at http://bit.ly/9uwVc8 to (KSC) (2006);

b. Kuhn (2007) at http://bit.ly/ekxUvD to KSC (2006);

c. Sweller, Kirschner, Clark (2007) at http://bit.ly/p6wXB3 to Silver, Duncan, & Chinn (2007); Schmidt, Loyens, van Gog, & Paas (2007); and Kuhn (2007).

As a counter to Sweller et al.’s (2007) emphasis on the importance of Randomized Control Trials (RCT’s) in education research, see e.g., “Re: Should Randomized Control Trials Be the Gold Standard of Educational Research?” [Hake (2005a,b) at http://bit.ly/GRLXEX and http://bit.ly/GMrrUA.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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Robert DeHaan (2005)


REFERENCES [URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 23 March 2012.]
DeHaan, R.L. 2005. “The Impending Revolution in Undergraduate Science Education,” Journal of Science Education and Technology 14(2): 253-269; an abstract is online at http://bit.ly/GMVv2m. The complete article was formerly online as a 152 kB pdf at http://bit.ly/ncAuQa but on 23 March 2012 that site had been temporarily disabled.

Hake, R.R. 2012. “Responses to Kirschner, Sweller, Clark (2006) and the Response to Those Responses” on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/GL7Gdm. Post of 23 Mar 2012 12:59:25 0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are also being transmitted to several discussion lists.