Advancing the Guidance Debate: Lessons from Educational Psychology and Implications for Biochemistry Learning.

ABSTRACT: Research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education supports a shift from traditional lecturing to evidence-based instruction in college courses, yet it is unknown whether particular evidence-based pedagogies are more effective than others for learning outcomes like problem solving. Research supports three distinct pedagogies: worked examples plus practice, productive failure, and guided inquiry. These approaches vary in the nature and timing of guidance, all while engaging the learner in problem solving. Educational psychologists debate their relative effectiveness, but the approaches have not been directly compared. In this study, we investigated the impact of worked examples plus practice, productive failure, and two forms of guided inquiry (unscaffolded and scaffold

SUBMITTER: Halmo SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8711822 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature