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try and encourage students to construct hypotheses, makes decisions, and discover
principles by themselves (Kearsley 1994b). The instructor's task is to "translate
information to be learned into a format appropriate to the learner's current state of
understanding" and organize it in a spiral manner "so that the student
continually builds upon what they have already learned." Bruner (1966, as
cited in Kearsley 1994b) states that a theory of instruction should address the following
aspects:
- the most effective sequences in which to present material
- the ways in which a body of knowledge can be structured so that it can be most readily
grasped by the learner
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