How People Learn Bridging Research and Practice (1999) / Chapter Skim
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As a result, the various mediating arenas that influence practice are often not aligned either with research findings or with each other. In synthesizing a broad body of research, How People Learn provides an opportunity to provide research-based messages that are clear and directly relevant to classroom practice.
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Key to expertise is the mastery of concepts that allow for deep understanding of that information, transforming it from a set of facts into usable knowledge. The conceptual framework allows experts to organize information into meaningful patterns and store it hierarchically in memory to facilitate retrieval for problem solving.
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Research and development are also recommended to extend the existing knowledge base by developing and testing new educational materials and by elaborating key research findings from How People Learn. Finally, creating an electronic database for information on curricula that have been evaluated by a team of experts is proposed.
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Finally, the committee suggests experimentation with, and study of, an interactive communications site where information and research findings from these proposed efforts can be accessed by a variety of audiences. The goal of this effort is to provide a knowledge base that is useful to teachers and to the various mediating groups that contribute to educational practice.
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