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Ouch ouch ouch, but thank you for helping me.
I'll have to think about a good "1-3 sentence description of what DI is" (in terms of what you can do with it, or in terms of its internal structure, or...?) while I'm at work, but as for evidence, if I said:
"Look at those two graphs from Project Follow-Through, because the meta-analysis says this stark difference between DI and other models of education keeps showing up in experiments comparing them."
Is that at all useful?
How about:
Direct Instruction is an educational theory which extensively used experiments during its creation, and seeks to explain educational concepts in a sensible and efficient way. The amount of experience individual teachers can acquire pales in comparison to the amount of experience curriculum-builders can acquire, which DI takes advantage of by giving teachers heavily researched, and thus effective, scripts and practices to follow. Experiments dramatically verify the superiority of DI over other instruction methods.
In three sentences, you can't explain anything about the method besides its inputs and its outputs, which is what other people are interested in. If they've got a use for your method, then they'll start asking about its moving parts.
That explains DI's origins, but doesn't say anything about how it looks like and how it is different from other approaches. (Why it is called Direct Instruction, after all?)
Right- that's because I don't know anything about what it looks like and how it's different from other approaches. (I haven't dug any deeper than this article and wikipedia).