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Gropper, George L. – Educational Technology, 2015
Proliferation of prescriptive models in an "engineering" field is not a sign of its maturity. Quite the opposite. Materials engineering, for example, meets the criterion of parsimony. Sadly, the very large number of models in "instructional design," putatively an engineering field, raises questions about its status. Can the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Models, Engineering, Research Needs

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