EDUC105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cognitive Architecture, Cognitive Psychology, Discovery Learning

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Teacher Education
• Course: EDUC105
• Professor: All

Document Summary

* pbl: as for inquiry learning but (cid:1684)real world(cid:1685) or authentic problems. * the teachers guiding and always giving feedback (feedback critical) * teacher goes through e. g power points on matter. * class demo by teacher using steam, water and ice. * students share ideas and experiment in groups. * teacher prompts if needed (eg. size? temp?) * can be timely and difficult to set up. * groups do not always cooperate or collaborative well. * teachers report a lack of confidence in approach. * novices and special need students especially affected. * direct instruction vs. discovery learning klahr and nigam (2004) * to investigate children"s ability to learn the scientific concept (cid:1684)control of variables(cid:1685) * allocated to direct instruction or discovery learning. * two wooden ramps with adjustable steepness, run length, and surface (smooth/rough) * 77% of direct instruction students became masters. * 23% of discovery learning students became masters. * mastery transferred to new scientific reasoning task.