Zone of Proximal DevelopmentThere is probably no segment of activity in the education world attracting as much attention at present as that of knowledge management in terms of data driven decision making. In this article author Mike King will define the content of the five categories used in knowledge management of data in the pre-development stages of an action plan. The first four
categories relate to the past; they deal with what has been or what is known. The fifth category deals with the future because it incorporates present data trends for designing operational interventions within the system to support current educational needs. In designing operational interventions educators can create a Zone of Proximal Development rather than just grasp the present and past. |
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Z.P.D. Development ModelThe Zone of Proximal Development, or ZPD, was originally established by the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky and refers to the distance between what a child can do with assistance and what the child can accomplish without assistance. The term used within the context of Data Management has a similar connotation except that within the data analysis system it becomes both a precursor to action plan development and is a provision for the continuous construction of operational interventions. Operational interventions play a key role within the data loop since it defines the process needed to scaffold data as it is being monitored against attainable performance levels established within the action plan. (See Knowledge Management and Data Driven Decision Making Flow Chart)©
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