What's the Meaning of ‘Direct Instruction’ ?

Some blog followers might be interested in “What's the Meaning of ‘Direct Instruction’? ” [Hake (2012b). The abstract reads:

*******************************************
ABSTRACT: In my post “Re: Khan's Video Lectures on Acceleration and Newton's Second Law” [Hake (2012a) at http://bit.ly/AiO4oY], I quoted Domenico Rosa's statement: “All the hits that Khan's videos are getting are indicative of the hunger for direct instruction.”

In response, Physoc’s Jim Huddle asked “What is ‘direct instruction’. ”

In “Language Ambiguities in Education Research” [Hake (2008) at http://bit.ly/bHTebD] I listed four different meanings for “direct instruction” commonly found in the educational literature, that of:

1. the “Mathematically Correct Science Corner” at http://bit.ly/bfzdZS: drill and practice, non-hands-on, teach ’em the facts;

2. Physics Education Researchers: traditional passive-student lectures, recipe labs, and algorithmic problem sets;

3. Klahr & Nigam (2004): “the goals, materials, examples, explanations, and pace of instruction are all teacher controlled, but in which hands-on activities are featured (K & N call this extreme direct instruction);

4. Association Of Direct Instruction [ADI (2004)]: (a) teaching by telling (as contrasted by teaching by implying), or (b) instructional techniques based on choral responses, homogeneous grouping, signals, and other proven instructional techniques, or (c) specific programs designed by Siegfried Engelmann and his staff.

Domenico Rosa was probably using “direct instruction” as defined in “1” above (please correct me if I'm wrong).
*******************************************

To access the complete 11 kB post please click on http://bit.ly/FOp16Y.


Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References
which Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)

rrhake@earthlink.net
Links to Articles: http://bit.ly/a6M5y0
Links to SDI Labs: http://bit.ly/9nGd3M
Blog: http://bit.ly/9yGsXh
Academia: http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/rrhake


REFERENCES [URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 16 March 2012.]
Hake, R.R. 2012a. “Re: Khan's Video Lectures on Acceleration and Newton’s Second Law,” on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/yPSjFE. Post of 16 Mar 2012 09:11:07-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are also being transmitted to several discussion lists and are on my blog “Hake'sEdStuff” at http://bit.ly/wEdup7 with a provision for comments.

Hake, R.R. 2012b. “What's the Meaning of ‘Direct Instruction’? ” on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/FOp16Y. Post of 16 Mar 2012 13:59:51-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are also being transmitted to several discussion lists.