When failure fails to be productive: probing the effectiveness of productive failure for learning beyond STEM domains
Valentina Nachtigall; Katja Serova; Nikol Rummel · 2020 · Instructional Science
WASTE classifies this as Negative / Null Result Report · AI classification, approximate
The study found no significant effect — useful as a negative control or null benchmark for your own design.
Abstract
Abstract The current work builds on research demonstrating the effectiveness of Productive Failure (PF) for learning. While the effectiveness of PF has been demonstrated for STEM learning, it has not yet been investigated whether PF is also beneficial for learning in non-STEM domains. Given this need to test PF for learning in domains other than mathematics or science, and the assumption that features embodied in a PF design are domain-independent, we investigated the effect of PF on learning social science research methods. We conducted two quasi-experimental studies with 212 and 152 10th gra
Abstract by Valentina Nachtigall; Katja Serova; Nikol Rummel, Instructional Science (2020) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1007/s11251-020-09525-2