Full Description
How can we ensure that students truly benefit from the expert knowledge of their professors and tutors, and how can we enable them to put knowledge into practice?
Decision-Based Learning (DBL) is an innovative instructional strategy that uncovers the 'expert blind spot' to reveal the conditional knowledge that teachers (as experts) use to reason and act within the discipline. Instruction begins by modeling an expert's decision-making process through real-world scenarios, guiding students through the conditions that shape those decisions. Learning occurs through comparison/contrast with other possible conditions at each decision point. Concepts and procedures are learned when they are relevant to the decision. With DBL, students never have to ask, 'When does this apply?'
In this book you will read stories told by faculty who have redesigned their university courses using the Decision-Based Learning pedagogy and the impact this powerful strategy can have on student learning. It should be of use to anyone teaching and designing curricula in higher education.
Contents
Chapter 1. Why Decision-Based Learning is Different; Richard H. Swan
Chapter 2. How to use Decision-Based Learning; Kenneth J. Plummer
Chapter 3. I am not a Real Statistician; I Just Play One on TV; Lane Fischer, Kenneth J. Plummer, Heidi A. Vogeler, and Sara Moulton
Chapter 4. Make Thinking Explicit to Support Student Learning; Rebecca L. Sansom
Chapter 5. Creating an Expert Decision Model Designed to Improve Student Learning in First-Year General Chemistry Courses; Steven G. Wood
Chapter 6. Exploring Decision-Based Learning in an Engineering Context; Todd G. Nelson
Chapter 7. Decision-Based Learning in an Information Systems Course; Degan Kettles
Chapter 8. Decision-Based Learning in Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Modeling Courses; Shiloh James Howland and Ross A. A. Larsen
Chapter 9. Using Decision-Based Learning to Teach Qualitative Research Evaluation; Michael A. Owens and Emily R. Mills
Chapter 10. Implementing Decision-Based Learning in an Introductory Religion Course; Stephan Taeger
Chapter 11. Using Decision-Based Learning to Teach Source Evaluation in One-Shot Library Sessions; Ana Katz and Jason Godfrey
Chapter 12. Information Literacy and Decision-Based Learning; David S. Pixton
Chapter 13. Lessons Learned from the Implementation of Decision-Based Learning; Nancy Wentworth
