Productive failure (errors)
Overview
- Influence: Productive failure (errors)
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Feedback
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- Influence Definition: Productive Failure is a learning design to design conditions for learners to persist in generating and exploring representations and solution methods for solving complex, novel problems. Typically involves failure and errors which are then core to the teaching.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 89
- Number of students: 2,183
- Number of effects: 213
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.39
- Robustness index: 2
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Applied Psychology | Keith & Frese | Effectiveness of error management training: a meta-analysis. | 2008 | Productive failure | 24 | 2,183 | 24 | 0.44 | |
| Review of Educational Research | Sinha & Kapur | When Problem Solving Followed by Instruction Works: Evidence for Productive Failure. | 2021 | Problem solving then instruction | 53 | NA | 166 | 0.36 | |
| Educational Technology Research and Development | Darabi, Arrington, & Sayilir | Learning from failure: A meta-analysis of the empirical studies | 2018 | Productive failure | 12 | NA | 23 | 0.43 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 89 | 2,183 | 213 | 0.41 | |||||