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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Alas, the major direct comparisons with DI predate that effort but I find it fascinating.