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<p>Giving effective instructional explanations is one of the most important teacher competences. Recent didactic literature provides, however, little insight on teacher explanations. In our previous work we developed guidelines for designing comprehensible explanations in the field of business (teacher) education, which are along general lines transferable to other subject areas and target audiences. In this article, we first compare our guidelines to the state of research in general and mathematics didactics. We then investigate their applicability to teaching operations research at university level, based on interviews with professors of the international operations research community.</p>
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Giving effective instructional explanations is one of the most important teacher competences. Recent didactic literature provides, however, little insight on teacher explanations. In our previous work we developed guidelines for designing comprehensible explanations in the field of business (teacher) education, which are along general lines transferable to other subject areas and target audiences. In this article, we first compare our guidelines to the state of research in general and mathematics didactics. We then investigate their applicability to teaching operations research at university level, based on interviews with professors of the international operations research community.

How to give effective explanations: Guidelines for business education, discussion of their scope and their application to teaching operations research

Institute for Business Education, Department Management

WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business

Department Management, WU – Vienna University of Economics and Business

Department of Statistics and Operations Research

Research in Subject-matter Teaching and Learning (RISTAL)

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Giving effective instructional explanations is one of the most important teacher competences. Recent didactic literature provides, however, little insight on...

How to give effective explanations: Guidelines for business education, discussion of their scope and their application to teaching operations research

Published Online: Jun 14, 2022

Page range: 32 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23770/rt1823

Keywords
instructional explanations, comprehensibility, general didactics, business didactics, mathematics didactics, teaching operations research

© 2019 Christiane Schopf et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

How to give effective explanations: Guidelines for business education, discussion of their scope and their application to teaching operations research

Published Online: Jun 14, 2022

Page range: 32 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23770/rt1823

Keywordsinstructional explanations, comprehensibility, general didactics, business didactics, mathematics didactics, teaching operations research

© 2019 Christiane Schopf et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Keywords
instructional explanations, comprehensibility, general didactics, business didactics, mathematics didactics, teaching operations research