Inductive teaching
Overview
- Influence: Inductive teaching
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
- Influence Definition: A teaching technique that encourages students to reason from observation – or to move logically from observing, testing, and comparing – to articulating broad principles. Inductive teaching and learning is an umbrella term that encompasses a range of instructional methods, including inquiry learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, case-based teaching, discovery learning, and just-in-time teaching.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 133
- Number of students: 4,668
- Number of effects: 133
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.57
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Research in Science Teaching | Lott | The effect of inquiry teaching and advance organizers upon student outcomes in science education | 1983 | Inductive teaching in science | 24 | NA | 24 | 0.06 | |
| Zeitschrift fur padagogische psychologie | Klauer | Training of Inductive Reasoning - An Updated Meta-Analysis | 2014 | Inductive teaching | 109 | 4,668 | 109 | 0.68 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 133 | 4,668 | 133 | 0.37 | |||||