SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS
Understanding Variability in Human Functioning
Self-Scaffolding draws on established research across psychology, neuroscience, education, and learning science.
These areas provide scientific background for concepts concerning regulation, executive functioning, cognitive demand, stress and adaptation, learning, metacognition, and scaffolding.
Core Scientific Influences
Adele Diamond
Executive Functions — Cognitive Control and Flexibility
Russell A. Barkley
Executive Function and Self-Regulation
James J. Gross
Emotion Regulation
Bruce S. McEwen
Stress Physiology — Allostasis and Adaptation
John Sweller
Cognitive Load Theory — Learning and Cognitive Demand
Lev Vygotsky
Zone of Proximal Development — Learning and Development.
Wood, Bruner & Ross
Scaffolding — Structured Support in Learning
John H. Flavell
Metacognition — Knowledge and Monitoring of Cognition
Barry J. Zimmerman
Self-Regulated Learning — Planning, Monitoring, Reflection, and Adjustment
These bodies of research provide foundations for different components of the framework.