Sitemap - 2025 - Unconstrained Kids
How informal learning can help to improve reading and math achievement
Principle 13: Skills in specific contexts gradually transfer and generalize to new contexts.
Principle 12: Skill building can occur along multiple pathways.
Principle 11: Skill building is varied and stable at the same time.
Principle 10: Skill building is construction, collapse, and reconstruction.
Principle 9: Skill level varies across a developmental range.
Principle 8: Skills are built through social interaction.
Principle 7: Skill building without motivation is impossible.
Principle 6: Emotion is the fuel for skill building.
Principle 5: Knowledge is essential to skill building.
Principle 4: Skills are built through action.
Principle 3: Skills are built in specific contexts. Change the context, change the skill.
Principle 2: Skills are hierarchical, interactive, and dynamic.
Principle 1: Skills self-organize and increase in complexity over time.
14 principles of skill building
Show me the data: Boys, girls, and skills
Show me the data: Unconstrained skills in high school
Show me the data: World knowledge
Show me the data: Nonacademic skills
Show me the data: Unconstrained K-8 reading and math skills
Show me the data: Constrained K-5 reading and math skills
Show me the data: 25 years of constrained and unconstrained skills
Constrained and unconstrained skills—so what?
A working list of constrained and unconstrained skills that support reading and math achievement
A history of the academic research behind constrained skill theory