Research Update #8: Productive Failure Can Improve Conceptual Learning
LDA friend and Executive Advisory Board Member, Ruth Colvin Clark provides a twice-monthly research update. These updates are single-page infographic/ summaries you can open, read, download, and file for later review and reference.
In this eighth review Ruth explores how Productive Failure (PF) instruction assigns learners a problem to solve prior to instruction. Usually students fail to solve the problem and then learn more conceptual knowledge from subsequent instruction.
