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Getting Explicit Instruction Right
Richard Holden, Fabio I. Martinenghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10480 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1…

Getting Explicit Instruction Right
There has been substantial public debate about the potentially deleterious effects of the long-run move to ``inquiry-based learning'' in which students are placed at the center of an educational journey and arrive at their own understanding of what is being taught. There have been numerous calls for a return to ``direct'' or ``explicit'' instruction. This paper focuses on identifying the causal effect of correctly implementing explicit instruction on student performance in standardized tests. W…