David Wood

ThinkersDevelopmental psychologist

Works

  • The Role of Tutoring in Problem Solving, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1976

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Known for

A developmental psychologist whose 1976 study with Jerome S. Bruner and Gail Ross of how adults tutor young children brought the term scaffolding into the study of tutoring, for the support a tutor gives and then withdraws as the learner gains control of the task.

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