This paper presents the results of two studies of the long-term effects of the Direct Instruction Follow Through Model. The first examines the academic achievement scores of fifth-and sixthgraders who ...

Researchers debate the Direct Instruction model in teaching reading to rural students, in a series of Journal of Research in Rural Education articles.

Schools using Direct Instruction, a teaching method sometimes criticized for its tightly scripted teaching lessons, are generally seeing gains in student learning, according to a new package of ...

Two groups of scholars look at the same body of research and come to opposite conclusions on which are the most effective teaching strategies. One says the evidence for inquiry is weak. The other camp ...

Join AEI’s Robert Pondiscio, instructional coach Zach Groshell, and the National Institute for Direct Instruction’s Kurt Engelmann for a conversation on the merits of direct or explicit ...

Prominent Indigenous Australian Noel Pearson is promoting Direct Instruction in Cape York schools, prominent educationalists have dismissed it as “pedagogy for the poor”, and Education ...

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson is defending his controversial 'direct Instruction' education program at the troubled Aurukun school in far north Queensland. The state government has decided to ...