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: NA
- Number of effects: 394
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.27
- Robustness index: 2
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | NA | 34 | 0.11 | |
| Journal of Educational Psychology | Alfieri, Brooks, Aldrich, & Tenenbaum | Does discovery-based instruction enhance learning? | 2011 | Discovery methods | 164 | NA | 360 | 0.30 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 193 | NA | 394 | 0.21 | |||||