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 ...

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 ...

Teachers still provided direct, in-class instruction, supplemented by online practice with Khan Academy problems. Teachers using this model found the data Khan provides helpful for motivating students ...

Mr Higham also expressed his support for the direct instruction model, which he continues to teach as a relief teacher at Gordonvale’s Djarragun College.