In a short paper I hope to get published, I use the framework from Imre Lakatos, to distinguish between research programmes that are degenerating or progressing. I  argue that the Cognitive Readiness and Demand Theory developed using Neo-Piagetian Theory,  is able to make bold falsifiable predictions into new areas of teaching.This largely due to its development of objective measures of the Cognitive level of thinking that students bring to a task and a way of measuring the cognitive demand of these tasks.

Whereas  Cognitive Load Theory has major problems in particular measurement and has had to make ad hoc additions to its core theory which have reduced its openness to falsification.

Two summaries follow