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Hamel, Erin; Joo, Yuenjung; Hong, Soo-Young; Burton, Anna – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
This study explores teachers' use of questioning during collaborative science exploratory activities. We classified a total of 755 questions across 14 preschool science lessons implemented by four teachers by type (open- or closed-ended) and content (science or non-science related) while also recording the intended recipient. Results revealed…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques
Yu, Yue; Landrum, Asheley R.; Bonawitz, Elizabeth; Shafto, Patrick – Developmental Science, 2018
How can education optimize transmission of knowledge while also fostering further learning? Focusing on children at the cusp of formal schooling (N = 180, age = 4.0-6.0 y), we investigate learning after direct instruction by a knowledgeable teacher, after questioning by a knowledgeable teacher, and after questioning by a naïve informant.…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Preschool Children, Learning Processes, Direct Instruction
Tekin, Murat; Elmas, Leman – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate the imagery and creativity of the 7th grade students using guided discovery method. The research group was made 77 (age=12.7922+0.52158) 7th grade students, 37 females and 40 males studying in Imam Hatip Secondary School, Konya province, Eregli county. To achieve the purpose of the research,…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Teaching Methods, Grade 7, Secondary School Students
Lakshminarayanan, Srinivasan; Rao, N. J.; G. K., Meghana – Higher Education for the Future, 2021
The introductory programming course, commonly known as CS1 and offered as a core course in the first year in all engineering programs in India, is unique because it can address higher cognitive levels, metacognition and some aspects of the affective domain. It can provide much needed transformative experiences to students coming from a system of…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Mastery Learning, Computer Science Education, Programming
Rapanta, Chrysi – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2018
This article examines three commonly used pedagogical methods, namely the Socratic method of inquiry, collaborative problem solving, and debate-based deliberation, establishing the relationship of each one of these methods with the strategic promotion of argumentative reasoning, as a commonplace objective and means of inquiry-based educational…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Questioning Techniques, Cooperation
Mkimbili, Selina Thomas; Ødegaard, Marianne – Research in Science Education, 2019
Fostering and maintaining students' interest in science is an important aspect of improving science learning. The focus of this paper is to listen to and reflect on students' voices regarding the sources of motivation for science subjects among students in community secondary schools with contextual challenges in Tanzania. We conducted a…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Science Instruction, Science Interests, Student Attitudes
Richard Beach; Michelle M. Falter; Jennifer Jackson Whitley – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to make the case for the value of fostering collaborative sensemaking in responding to literature. Drawing on examples of classroom interactions in 6th-, 8th-, 11th- and 12th-grade classrooms, it proposes methods for teachers to foster collaborative sensemaking. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing…
Descriptors: Current Events, Literature, Grade 6, Grade 8
Goldin, Andrea P.; Pezzatti, Laura; Battro, Antonio M.; Sigman, Mariano – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2011
Two thousand four hundred years ago Socrates gave a remarkable lesson of geometry, perhaps the first detailed record of a pedagogical method in vivo in history [Plato. (2008). "Apologia de Socrates. Menon. Cratilo." Madrid: Alianza Editorial]. Socrates asked Meno's slave 50 questions requiring simple additions or multiplications. At the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods
Nelsen, Jane; DeLorenzo, Chip – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2010
Have you ever found yourself lecturing a child, with the best of intentions, in an attempt to help him or her learn a lesson or process a situation in a manner that you feel will be productive? Curiosity questions, which the authors also call What and How questions, help children process an experience, event, or natural consequence so that they…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Montessori Method, Teaching Methods, Discovery Learning
Bragg, Leicha A.; Nicol, Cynthia – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2011
In this article, the authors present an approach to developing open-ended problems through capturing contextualised mathematics in photographs. They draw upon their research with the Problem Posing Research Project, a collaborative venture between an Australian and a Canadian university to broaden pre-service teachers pedagogical practices in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Mathematics, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving
Achuonye, Keziah Akuoma – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This descriptive survey is hinged on predominant teaching strategies in schools, implications for curriculum implementation in Mathematics, Science and Technology. Target population consisted of teachers in primary, secondary and tertiary schools. However, purposive sample of 900 respondents was drawn from the six BRACED states namely Bayelsa,…
Descriptors: Surveys, STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers

Egan, Kieran – Peabody Journal of Education, 1975
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Inquiry, Questioning Techniques
Carin, Arthur A. – Sci Children, 1970
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary School Science, Instruction, Questioning Techniques

Jones, Phillip S. – Math Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, History, Instruction, Learning
McNaughton, A. H. – Teachers Coll Rec, 1969
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning, Generalization