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Compare what you do with help and what you do alone

Find the level you reach with good support and the level you reach without it, then work in the gap between them.

Pourquoi ça marche

Lectica’s summary of Fischer’s theory separates the optimal level, the highest a person performs with appropriate support, from the functional level, what they perform unaided. The gap is information: on this page’s inference, a person who can do something only with a prompt may have a skill still being assembled. Lectica says learners can generally construct a new skill with appropriate support faster than they can on their own. This page takes the next step as its own application: working at the supported level and then reducing help may move unaided performance toward it, which Lectica does not describe.

Comment faire

  1. Choose a task you can do with a good prompt, example, or partner.
  2. Do it once with that support, and note exactly what the support supplied.
  3. Do it again with less support, starting from your own plan.
  4. Keep reducing the support until the unaided version is no longer a stretch.

Données probantes

Kitchener, Lynch, Fischer and Wood (1993) is a study whose title names the effect of contextual support and practice on developmental stage. I confirmed the citation record but could not read the findings, so this page states no effect size from it. The optimal and functional distinction itself comes from Lectica’s summary of Fischer’s theory. The fading of support in the how-to is this page’s application; Lectica describes support helping learners build skills faster, not its removal. (mechanistic)

The distinction describes performance under two conditions, not a fixed ability. Help can also hide what a person cannot yet do alone, so unaided performance needs checking regularly.

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Erreur fréquente

Reading the drop in unaided performance as proof the skill was never there, and stopping practice instead of reducing the support one step at a time.

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Comment fonctionne Compare what you do with help and what you do alone ?

Lectica’s summary of Fischer’s theory separates the optimal level, the highest a person performs with appropriate support, from the functional level, what they perform unaided. The gap is information: on this page’s inference, a person who can do something only with a prompt may have a skill still being assembled. Lectica says learners can generally construct a new skill with appropriate support faster than they can on their own. This page takes the next step as its own application: working at the supported level and then reducing help may move unaided performance toward it, which Lectica does not describe.

Quelle est l'erreur la plus fréquente avec Compare what you do with help and what you do alone ?

Reading the drop in unaided performance as proof the skill was never there, and stopping practice instead of reducing the support one step at a time.

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