Zone of Proximal Development, Scaffolding and Teaching Practice

Scaffolding Emergent Writing in the Zone of Proximal Development

In recent years, there have been many and varied successful applications of the Vygotskian concept of the zone of proximal development (ZPD) to the area of literacy learning (e.g., Burkhalter, 1995; Combs, 1996; Steward, 1996). These applications, often developed as instructional programs, generally demonstrate the viability of providing children support within their ZPD and describe various wa...

Individual Achievement in an Honors Research Community: Teaching Vygotskyâ•Žs Zone of Proximal Development

the effect of explicit teaching of metacognitive vocabulary learning strategies on recall and retention of idioms

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Modeling the Zone of Proximal Development with a Computational Approach

In this paper, we propose a computational approach to modeling the Zone of Proximal Development of students who learn using a natural-language tutoring system for physics. We employ a student model to predict students’ performance based on their prior knowledge and activity when using a dialogue tutor to practice with conceptual, reflection questions about high-school level physics. Furthermore...

Re/thinking the Zone of Proximal Development (Symmetrically)

The notion of zone of proximal development has come to be used widely to theorize learning and learning opportunities. Unfortunately, following a simplified reading of its original definition and primary sense in the quote that opens this text, the concept tends to be thought of in terms of the opposition of individuals. One of these individuals, a teacher or peer, is more capable than another ...