Inductive teaching
Overview
- Influence: Inductive teaching
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Instructional strategies
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- 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: 3
- Number of studies: 171
- Number of students: 6,391
- Number of effects: 171
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.60
- Robustness index: 3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Research in Science Teaching | Lott | USA | The effect of inquiry teaching and advance organizers upon student outcomes in science education | 1983 | Inductive teaching in science | 24 | 0 | 24 | 0.06 |
| Zeitschrift fur padagogische psychologie | Klauer | Germany | Training of Inductive Reasoning - An Updated Meta-Analysis | 2014 | Inductive teaching | 109 | 4,668 | 109 | 0.68 |
| Review of Educational Research | Klauer & Phye | Germany | Inductive reasoning: a training approach | 2008 | Inductive teaching | 38 | 1,723 | 38 | 0.69 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 171 | 6,391 | 171 | 0.48 | |||||