Making the Failure More Productive: Scaffolding the Invention Process to Improve Inquiry Behaviors and Outcomes in Invention Activities

N G. Holmes; James Day; Anthony H. K. Park; D A. Bonn; Ido Roll

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 42, No. 4 (July 2014) pp. 523–538

Invention activities are Productive Failure activities in which students attempt (and often fail) to invent methods that capture deep properties of a construct before being taught expert solutions. The current study evaluates the effect of...