Fiery words from designers of Direct Instruction, a scripted behaviorist instructional model which competed with various reform models in the largest educational study ever conducted. It trampled all other models in every measure—including student affect! andymatuschak.org/files/1988-Eng
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(I'm in the midst of a literature review on the evidence for constructivist, student-directed, and inquiry-based learning models. Results are candidly quite bleak thus far.)
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Would be v interesting to know the outcome of your study. Looking for evidence to assist in crafting a coaching program for sports
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I wonder how much overlap there is in the pedagogy with e.g. math! Very interesting.
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Agreed. My interest is Cricket (skill set has large overlap with Baseball). Current trend here in Oz is to let kids hit the ball however it’s easiest for them. Previously coaching was about learning particular “shots” intended to direct ball to certain places on the field.
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Modern methods seem intended to allow players to develop “naturally”. However I know of one top player who had to go back to basics and re-learn batting (i.e. the “shots”) for ~ 6 months when he wanted to improve his scores. Now he’s very very good.
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