Developmental Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

The present work convincingly demonstrates a wide field of the differentiation-integration theory of development for elaborating rational programs of education that provides not only efficient mastering of knowledge, but entails the development of general and special abilities of schoolchildren. The techniques of assessment of quality of knowledge built on our theory allow us to define a zone of proximal development and thus to organize the education process that leads to intellectual development of every pupil.