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Decoding the Disciplines
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- Last edited 1 year ago by Peter Riegler
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Decoding the Disciplines is a process for increasing student learning by narrowing the gap between expert and novice thinking. Beginning with the identification of bottlenecks to learning in particular disciplines, it seeks to make explicit the tacit knowledge of experts and to help students master the mental actions they need for success in particular courses.
Steps in the Decoding process
Identify a bottleneck to learning
Uncover the mental tasks needed to overcome the bottleneck
Model these tasks
Give students practice and feedback
Motivate and lessen resistance
Assess student mastery
History
Decoding the Disciplines has been pioneered by Joan Middendorf and David Pace at Indiana University.
Decoding the Disciplines as a framework
relation to other frameworks