Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Education articles by quality/1

• better organizational structure
• more details, particularly on Locke's curriculum recommendations
• a reception history that details the profound effect this text had on eighteenth-century education

Awadewit 11:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Your assessment seems right to me, but I haven't read the book, so I can be of little help. I checked my library's electronic journals for any contemporary secondary literature, but couldn't find anything useable. You do great work around here. KSchutte 01:00, 27 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

More opinions of the practitioners or supporters of the theory can be added to present a broader spectrum of opinion.At present,only the Harvard led study of New City School and other institutions provide some opinions in support from the sphere of practical application.Senthil km 08:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC) (edit comment)

As this is the only article on direct instruction submitted thus far, I am scared it will be read by some as fact, despite the many "citation needed" tags. This is corrupt information, and though W has marked it as possibly biased, I'm scared it will be cited. Please don't use this article as though it holds any authority!! There are wonderful definitions all over the place. Just hit Google, or any number of university websites, if you are doing online research. Please do not use this article to guide any definitions of "direct instruction!"

-Marged Howley, Master's Candidate, Ohio University College of Education (edit comment)

--Bowapt 01:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC) (edit comment)

Mature and experienced people bring a wealth of knowledge and information into a project or problem-solving environment. But, immature, inexperienced and limited knowledge students are not yet equipped to make valuable contributions to these group analyses and decision making projects. In fact, the brightest students and the hardest working students provide a major proportion of the outcomes in these projects. Yet, the group is given a group grade and thus the weaker contributors inevitably benefit more than they earn.

Unfortunately, primary education has deteriorated substantially during the past 50 years in equipping students with good fundamental knowledge and skills. A comparison of english and math test requirements and results will poignantly verify this. However, primary graders may demonstrate a slightly broader range of knowledge nowadays due to the impact of extra-curriculum exposure. But their demonstrable skills in the 3R's and other subjects is significantly less than what their grandparents' skills were.

Of course, at the root of this issue is the classroom time being under-utilized by group assignments and projects at the primary school levels. If this time were dedicated to effective teaching of the fundamental learning blocks and skills at the primary level, the quality of outcomes based projects at the higher educational levels would dramatically increase.

64.229.236.170 16:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)Jim Reid, Toronto, Canada (edit comment)