Progressive Reveal
Release evidence in a deliberate sequence so students must update an explanation rather than wait for the answer.
- Knowledge
- Evidential · Causal · Interpretive · Metacognitive
- Sequence
- Guided Construction · Disciplinary Application
- Interaction
- High
A progressive reveal turns revision into the learning mechanism. Each new piece of evidence is chosen because it confirms, complicates, or overturns the current model, making the quality of updating visible.
01How the architecture unfolds
- Elicit an initial explanation.
- Reveal one diagnostic piece of evidence.
- Require an explicit update.
- Introduce evidence that complicates the model.
- Compare the final model with the starting model.
02The work on each side
Teacher moves
- Select evidence for diagnostic value
- Ask what changed and what did not
- Normalise revision as intellectual strength
Student moves
- Predict
- Record confidence
- Update
- Reconcile
- Reflect
03What would count as learning?
- Students can identify which evidence changed their model
- Revisions become more proportionate to the evidence
04Across the curriculum
Disease transmission
Reveal case-location and contact evidence so students replace a simple proximity model with a transmission model.
Collapse of Weimar democracy
Add political, economic, and elite-decision evidence to disrupt a single-cause account.