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The knowledge-learning-instruction framework: bridging the science-practice chasm to enhance robust student learning.

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posted on 2012-07-01, 00:00 authored by Kenneth R Koedinger, Albert Corbett, Charles Perfetti

Despite the accumulation of substantial cognitive science research relevant to education, there remains confusion and controversy in the application of research to educational practice. In support of a more systematic approach, we describe the Knowledge-Learning-Instruction (KLI) framework. KLI promotes the emergence of instructional principles of high potential for generality, while explicitly identifying constraints of and opportunities for detailed analysis of the knowledge students may acquire in courses. Drawing on research across domains of science, math, and language learning, we illustrate the analyses of knowledge, learning, and instructional events that the KLI framework affords. We present a set of three coordinated taxonomies of knowledge, learning, and instruction. For example, we identify three broad classes of learning events (LEs): (a) memory and fluency processes, (b) induction and refinement processes, and (c) understanding and sense-making processes, and we show how these can lead to different knowledge changes and constraints on optimal instructional choices.

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This is the accepted version of the article which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01245.x

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2012-07-01

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