What is the best approach to educating students is, evidently, the pivotal question in
educational research. In the general debate on this question, clear positions are often …

Difficulty in understanding and applying physics concepts is a problem that is often
encountered in learning. Therefore, problem-solving abilities are needed in physics …

The concept of productive failure posits that a problem-solving phase prior to explicit
instruction is more effective than explicit instruction followed by problem-solving. This …

There is a considerable gap between many of the findings from educational psychology
research and educational practice. This gap is especially notable in the field of science …

Engaging learners in practicing the retrieval of learned information fosters the consolidation
of learners' mental representations and hence long-term retention. Retrieval practice …

Let evidence guide your training. Your training is much more effective when your methods
are based on evidence. In this third edition of Evidence-Based Training Methods, Ruth …

Since Bruner's introduction of discovery learning in the 1960s, there has been an ongoing
and intensive debate on the value of inductive teaching methods (eg, problem-solving …

Exploring a new concept before instruction can benefit conceptual understanding, but is
demanding. The current experiments examined whether providing guidance during …

One of the demands of 21st-century skills is problem-solving skills, to have good solving
skills, one must have good learning success factors, such as learning motivation. In fact …

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 …