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 in a laboratory or workshop setting through direct experience. Often equated to project-based teaching or play-based teaching.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 193
- Number of students: 0
- Number of effects: 394
- Effect size: 0.21
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unpublished Dissertation | Mitchell | A comparison of the effectiveness of innovative instructional methods utilized in lower division mathematics as measured by student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 | |||||
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confidence Factor | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |