The Potential Long-Term Economic and Health Impacts of Direct Instruction
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Date
2015-05-22
Authors
Stockard, Jean
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Publisher
National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI)
Abstract
Students taught with Direct Instruction (DI) can have advantages that persist throughout
their lifetimes. Students exposed to DI in the early grades are more likely to complete high
school and enter college. In turn, people with higher levels of educational attainment have
better employment opportunities, higher earnings and better health, a causal chain
illustrated in Figure 1... This logical conclusion is based on decades of research. Longitudinal studies have shown
that students exposed to DI in the early grades are significantly more likely than other
students to complete high school, to enter higher education and less likely to be retained or
to dropout (Figures 2 and 3). Decades of work in the social sciences have documented the
multitude of advantages that accrue to those with more education and, correspondingly, the
disadvantages that accrue to those with lower levels of education. These, of course, include
large differences in unemployment and annual income (Figures 4 and 5). They also,
however, include more hidden advantages including substantial differences in health and
life expectancy, most easily seen in comparisons of death rates (Figure 6). All of these
differences in well-being of those with different levels of education appear across racial-ethnic
and sex groups and cross-culturally. The pattern has been documented for many
years.
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4 pages
Keywords
Technical Report, Longitudinal Study