Constructivist teaching
Overview
- Influence: Constructivist teaching
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: Constructivist teaching involves providing students with learner-centered, active instruction, where students explore ideas, propositions, explanations, solutions and take subsequent actions.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 44
- Number of students: 2,065
- Number of effects: 56
- Effect size: 0.64
Meta-Analyses
Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
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Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University | Abrami, Bernard, Wade, Schmid, Borokhovski, Tamim, Surkes, Lowerison, Zhang, Nicolaidou, Newman, Wozney, & Peretiatkowicz | Israel | A review of e-learning in Canada: A rough sketch of the evidence, gaps and promising directions. | 2006 | Constructivist technology intensive learning | 17 | 0 | 29 | 0.17 |
Anthropologist | Erisen & Gunay | Turkey | A meta-analysis into the effectiveness of doctoral dissertations on constructivist learning. | 2015 | Constructivist in doctoral thesis | 27 | 2,065 | 27 | 1.10 |
TOTAL/AVERAGE | 44 | 2,065 | 56 | 0.64 |
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
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Confidence Factor | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |