Abstract: Learning from the worked example had a long history in educational psychology research field and received great attention from the cognitive psychologists and the educational psychologists recently. The three research themes, intra-example features and inter-example features of worked example and the self-explanation, are reviewed since 1980s’ in the present article. Then, the article points out the problems to be solved and describes the new reference framework for future research about learning from worked example.

Key words: worked example, intra-example feature, inter-example feature, self-explanation