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Rachelle Emily Rawlinson; Nicola Whitton – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2024
The increasingly neoliberal course of Higher Education is linked to rises in student anxiety around assessment and increased fear of the consequences of failure. Making mistakes is an inevitable part of any learning process (and of life generally) and managing failure in a productive and positive way is crucial for success and wellbeing beyond…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Play, Failure, Learning Processes
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Lu Cao; Polly K. Lai; Hongzhi Yang – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
This study explored the use of an innovative instructional approach called Productive Failure (PF) to design an educational game and its support. The study then examined the effects of two different types of instruction--PF vs. Direct Instruction (DI)--on learning genetics and relevant mathematical knowledge in a Game-Based Learning (GBL)…
Descriptors: Failure, Problem Solving, Genetics, Biological Sciences
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Janet Metcalfe; Judy Xu; Matti Vuorre; Robert Siegler; Dylan Wiliam; Robert A. Bjork – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: Although the generation of errors has been thought, traditionally, to impair learning, recent studies indicate that, under particular feedback conditions, the commission of errors may have a beneficial effect. Aims: This study investigates the teaching strategies that facilitate learning from errors. Materials and Methods: This 2-year…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Error Correction, Direct Instruction, Test Preparation
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Rola Ajjawi; Mary Dracup; David Boud – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Academic failure is commonplace in higher education. Some students persist and go on to complete their courses. However, some do not, and this can create problems for themselves and the institutions in which they are enrolled. If we could understand students' lived experiences of academic failure and persistence, it may be possible to design…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Problem Solving, Academic Persistence, Personal Narratives
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Zachary M. Savelson; Kasia Muldner – Computer Science Education, 2024
Background and Context: Productive failure (PF) is a learning paradigm that flips the order of instruction: students work on a problem, then receive a lesson. PF increases learning, but less is known about student emotions and collaboration during PF, particularly in a computer science context. Objective: To provide insight on students' emotions…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Fear, Failure
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Ahmet Erol – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
STEM education, which means integrated thinking, attracts the attention of early childhood educators and researchers. Engineering education, which naturally serves STEM integration, contributes to children's problem-solving skills with failure analysis and continual improvement habits of mind. Children need adult support in this process due to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Early Childhood Education, Problem Solving, Teacher Role
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Tejaswini Dalvi; Kristen Wendell – Science Education, 2024
An understanding of how sensemaking unfolds when elementary students engage in engineering design tasks is crucial to advancing engineering teaching and learning at K-12 levels. Sensemaking has been widely studied in the context of science as a discipline. In this paper, we seek to contribute to the more nascent efforts to build theory about the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Comprehension, Science Education
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Jennifer Kathleen Schwartz Poehlmann; Jocelyn Elizabeth Nardo; Marcos Rojas; Shima Salehi – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
General Chemistry I is known as a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) gatekeeper, often playing a role in determining students' STEM college pathways and their career prospects. However, there have been recent efforts to transform General Chemistry I from a gatekeeper course into a gateway course by implementing equity approaches.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Equal Education, Science Instruction, Chemistry