Coverage Approach according to Pratt 2002
- “by the name of “coverage,” an approach in which students march through a textbook, page by page (or teachers through lecture notes) in a valiant attempt to traverse all the factual material within a prescribed time (as in the world history vignette in the Introduction).”(Pratt, 2002, p. 16)
- “Coverage is a negative term (whereas introduction or survey is not) because when content is “covered” the student is led through unending facts, ideas, and readings with little or no sense of the overarching ideas, issues, and learning goals that might inform study.”(Pratt, 2002, p. 16)