Explanation Prompts

Theory

Explanation prompts are an instructional aid which promotes understanding of the learned material by requiring the learner to elaborate on the step of a procedure he has just learned about.1) Berthold, Kirsten, Tessa H. S. Eysink, and Alexander Renkl. Assisting self-explanation prompts are more effective than open prompts when learning with multiple representations. Instructional Science 37: 345-363, April 2008.

Practice

Research status