Decoding the Disciplines

Decoding the Disciplines is a process intended to increase student learning by narrowing the gap between expert and novice thinking.

The process seeks to make explicit the tacit knowledge of experts and to help students master the mental actions they need for success in particular courses.

[1] They found a discrepancy between the content taught and the actual prerequisites for success in many courses.

They hypothesized that students were often provided with incomplete conceptual frameworks, leaving them unable to tackle significant challenges.

The framework been explored by several researchers in a variety of disciplinary contexts including:

Graphical representation of the Decoding the Disciplines process