Integrating E-Learning into the Direct-Instruction Model to Enhance the Effectiveness of Critical-Thinking Instruction
ARTICLE
Yu-Chu Yeh
ISAIJLS Volume 37, Number 2, ISSN 0020-4277
Abstract
The "Direct-instruction Model" favors the use of teacher explanations and modeling combined with student practice and feedback to teach thinking skills. Using this paradigm, this study incorporates e-learning during an 18-week experimental instruction period that includes 48 preservice teachers. The instructional design in this study emphasizes scaffolding, observational learning, mastery of critical-thinking skills, guided practices, cooperative learning, providing feedback, self-reflection, online discussions, and active participation in an online learning community. This study employs 2 critical-thinking tests, 2 inventories, and 1 open-ended reflection questionnaire; and students' scores on the pretest and posttest are compared via the Repeated Measure Analysis of Variance. The primary findings are as follows: (a) all participants preferred the instructional design in this study; (b) the experimental instruction effectively improved the preservice teachers' critical-thinking ability as well as their professional knowledge and personal teaching efficacy concerning critical-thinking instruction; (c) the mechanisms contributing to the effectiveness of the experimental instruction mainly included discussing and sharing, observational learning, self-reflection, guided practice, and the learning community.
Citation
Yeh, Y.C. (2009). Integrating E-Learning into the Direct-Instruction Model to Enhance the Effectiveness of Critical-Thinking Instruction. Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 37(2), 185-203. Retrieved March 28, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/103314/.
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Keywords
- Cooperative learning
- Direct Instruction
- educational technology
- electronic learning
- Experimental Teaching
- Feedback (Response)
- instructional design
- Instructional Effectiveness
- models
- Observational Learning
- preservice teacher education
- preservice teachers
- Pretests Posttests
- Reflective Teaching
- Statistical Analysis
- Teacher Effectiveness
- technology integration
- thinking skills
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