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Model-Centered
Instruction.
Andrew
S. Gibbons
Abstract
This paper describes
model-centered instruction, an instructional theory based on the primary
relationship between a learner and real or modeled (a) environments, (b)
cause-effect systems, and (c) expert behavior. The central premise of
model-centered instruction is that the most effective and efficient and
instruction takes place through experiencing realia or models in the presence of
a variety of instructional augmentations designed to facilitate learning from
the experience. Experience of realia and models is focused through carefully
selected and sequenced problems posed with respect to the model(s). The learner
either solves these problems or observes them being solved. Models may take
several forms as they are given representation by instructional media at varying
degrees of resolution and fidelity.
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