Instructions

Description of the instrument
Instructions focuses on encoding and decoding verbal and written information. The difficulty in the tasks is not in the meaning of the words themselves, although learners may occasionally have problems with unfamiliar terms; the difficulty is rather with the significance of the words and with what they imply in context. Through the insights gained into the reasons for their successes and failures, learners are transformed into generators of information, able and willing to interpret and transmit complex instructions.

Cognitive functions developed

• Definition of the problem.
• Comparison of completed drawing with verbal instructions.
• Use of relevant cues to clarify ambiguities.
• Hypothetical thinking and use of logical evidence to support hypotheses.
  
  

Mediation of sample task
Mediated regulation and control of behavior is indicated until the instructions and picture have been completed and errors identified.

Sample task

©1996 R. Feuerstein, HWCRI.