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Steps in the Decoding Process

1. Identify a bottleneck to learning
2. Uncover the mental tasks needed to overcome the bottleneck
3. Model these tasks
4. Give students practice and feedback
5. Motivate and lessen resistance
6. Assess student mastery
7. Share what has been learned through the Decoding process

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• Examples of the Decoding process in action on our YouTube Channel and in recent podcasts
• A bibliography of works on Decoding arranged by author or by subject
  
• Decoding the Ivory Tower (Click on the site’s Decoding the Disciplines tab under Categories to see examples of Decoding in action.)

• Books on Decoding
  • Joan Middendorf and Leah Shopkow, Overcoming Student Learning Bottlenecks  Get 20% off using code OVBN20
  • David Pace, The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm (Indiana University Press)
  • Janice Miller-Young and Jennifer Boman, eds. Using the Decoding the Disciplines Framework for Learning Across Disciplines, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 150. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
  • David Pace and Joan Middendorf, Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking (New Directions in Teaching and Learning, Vol. 98 (Fall 2004)

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