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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Discovery-based teaching

Overview

  • Influence: Discovery-based teaching
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
  • Influence Definition: A practice in which students formulate clear, testable hypotheses, which they then test via their subsequent learning.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 2
  • Number of studies: 193
  • Number of students: 0
  • Number of effects: 394
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.27
  • Robustness index: 2

Meta-Analyses

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
Dissertation Mitchell USA A comparison of the effectiveness of innovative instructional methods utilized in lower division mathematics as measured by student achievement: a meta-analysis of findings 1987 Discovery methods in mathematics 29 0 34 0.11
Journal of Educational Psychology Alfieri, Brooks, Aldrich, & Tenenbaum USA Does discovery-based instruction enhance learning? 2011 Discovery methods 164 0 360 0.30
TOTAL/AVERAGE 193 0 394 0.21
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