Instruction Maps to Learning Events: Principles from the KLI Framework

Abstract

The KLI framework demonstrates how different instructional methods support different learning processes, which in turn produce different types of knowledge. Optimal instructional choices change depending on the target knowledge content.

Questions this source addresses

• How does the KLI framework resolve the apparent conflict between testing-effect research and worked-example research in learning science?
• How does the KLI framework's causal chain from instructional methods to learning processes to knowledge types guide the selection of teaching methods for a given learning goal?
• What instructional methods does the KLI framework associate with procedural/associative knowledge versus conceptual knowledge versus schema-level understanding?
• What steps does effective learning engineering require when a real instructional context involves multiple knowledge components of different types?