Teacher Explanations

Teacher Explanations is a pedagogical construct within instructional theory that comprises the systematic articulation of concepts, procedures, or reasoning processes by an educator to facilitate student understanding, distinguished by its intentional design to make implicit knowledge explicit within a structured learning environment.

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5.1K

Citations

251

Authors

120

Institutions

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2017–2026

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Explanation

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101

Worked-out examples: instructional explanations support learning by self-explanations

Alexander Renkl · Learning and Instruction · 2002 · 449 citations

Education, Educational Psychology, Instruction +10

A rational account of pedagogical reasoning: Teaching by, and learning from, examples

Patrick Shafto, Noah D. Goodman, Thomas L. Griffiths · Cognitive Psychology · 2014 · 292 citations

Education, Instruction, Teaching +10

Variation in teachers' descriptions of teaching: Broadening the understanding of teaching in higher education

Liisa Postareff, Sari Lindblom‐Ylänne · Learning and Instruction · 2007 · 250 citations

Education, Higher Education, Teaching +9

Displays of Epistemic Access: Student Responses to Teacher Explanations

Tom Koole · Research on Language and Social Interaction · 2010 · 224 citations

Education, Mathematics, Mathematics Education +16

In Search of the Knowledge Base of Language Teaching: Explanations by Experienced Teachers

Bill Johnston, Karin Goettsch · Canadian Modern Language Review/ La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes · 2000 · 204 citations

Language Studies, English As A Second Language, Teacher Education +16

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Authors

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Gaea Leinhardt
University of Pittsburgh, United States
4 publications · 209 citations
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Alexander Renkl
University of Freiburg, Germany
3 publications · 539 citations
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Cory T. Forbes
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States
3 publications · 113 citations
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Laura Zangori
University of Missouri, United States
3 publications · 113 citations
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David Geelan
Griffith University, Australia
3 publications · 66 citations
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120

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Research in Science Education
4 publications · 88 citations
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Science Education
3 publications · 112 citations
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Learning and Instruction
3 publications · 762 citations
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Frontiers in Education
FEDUC · 2 publications · 80 citations
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International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
2 publications · 62 citations
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