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.

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Publisher

Emerald Publishing Limited

Year

2021

ISBN

9781800432048

Topic

Bildung

Subtopic

Bildungstheorie & -praxis

Cover
Title
Chapter 1. Why Decision-based Learning is Different
Chapter 2. How to Use Decision-based Learning
Chapter 3. I Am Not a Real Statistician; I Just Play One on TV
Chapter 4. Make Thinking Explicit to Support Student Learning
Chapter 5. Creating an Expert Decision Model Designed to Improve Student Learning in First-year General Chemistry Courses
Chapter 6. Exploring Decision-Based Learning in an Engineering Context
Chapter 7. Decision-Based Learning in an Information Systems Course
Chapter 8. Decision-Based Learning in Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Modeling Courses
Chapter 9. Using Decision-Based Learning to Teach Qualitative Research Evaluation
Chapter 10. Implementing Decision-Based Learning in an Introductory Religion Course
Chapter 11. Using Decision-Based Learning to Teach Source Evaluation in One-shot Library Sessions
Chapter 12. Information Literacy and Decision-Based Learning
Chapter 13. Lessons Learned from the Implementation of Decision-Based Learning
References
Index