A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Straightest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.
Q: Where are the facts? I don’t see them in the text, nor do I see many references to them on this site.
A: This site is an introduction to a learners’ view (ALV) as a category of behavioral and social science research reports that describe steps people take to learn and ways scientists and educators have used these descriptions to accelerate, increase, and deepen (AID) learning promptly and sometimes dramatically.
ALV consists of these facts presented in non-technical terms. ALV represents an aspect of technical-scientific literacy of educators (TSLE). Unless identified in writing on a page, it contains only facts from one or more empirical research reports.
While writing this introduction, we had to choose whether to add footnotes for each of hundreds of reported facts (and thus give the site the appearance of a Teutonic textbook), or whether to leave out footnotes and citations of sources. We chose the latter option with some exceptions in early drafts of pages.
For now, we offer a section for Related Reading and a section for Related Resources at the end of entries. In addition, we offer Bibliographic Notes in the Appendices.
As time permits, we will link individual assertions to their sources, first through Related Reading or Related Reading and then to footnotes in entries. We’re still undecided whether to add citations on the same page as the assertion or at the end of the site as Notes, a current fashion for publishing tradebooks.
In addition, you can identify enough key words in entries for you to confirm our assertions in conventional ways.
Q: What is the difference between technical-scientific literacy of educators (TSLE) and what teachers and school administrators do and say everyday?
A: TSLE provides more precision, accuracy, repeatability, and measured confidence that what teachers and school administrators do and say today.
TSLE consists of vocabulary and logic used by experimental behavioral and social scientists to describe their research and findings of choices people make while learning in and out of schools. It features what teachers and observers can measure reliably.
Application of these findings likely result in accelerated, increased, and deepened learning when compared with results from what teachers and school administrators do and accomplish with their usual vocabulary and logic.
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Technical-Scientific Literacy of Educators (TSLE)