Abstract
The key elements underlying Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment Programme are described together with the programme’s aims. Suggestions are made as to appropriate ways of evaluating the programme’s effectiveness and a summary of most of the available large and small scale research prior to 1986 is given. This research is itself evaluated in the light of previous suggestions and found to be deficient on a number of counts. Nevertheless, a degree of cautious optimism with regard to the potential effects of FIE is considered warranted. Suggestions are made as to how future research might overcome the pitfalls of earlier studies by the application of alternative evaluation strategies.
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Les conceptions sous-jacentes à l’«Instrumental Enrichment Programme» de Feuerstein et les objectifs de ce programme font l’objet d’une description qui en dégage les éléments clés. L’auteur fait des suggestions sur les méthodes les plus adaptées à l’évaluation des effets du programme et passe en revue la plupart des travaux disponibles antérieurs à 1986. Ces travaux font eux-mêmes l’objet d’une évaluation critique à la lumière des suggestions de l’auteur. Il apparaît néanmoins, qu’à condition d’être prudent, on peut accorder une relative confiance aux effets de FIE. Des suggestions sont faites, dans la perspective des recherches futures, afin de surmonter les difficultés antérieures rencontrées par un renouvellement des stratégies d’évaluation.
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Burden, R. Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment Programme: Important issues in research and evaluation. Eur J Psychol Educ 2, 3–16 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03172703
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