Does Group Composition Affect Learning by Invention?

Michael Wiedmann; Ryan C. Leach; Nikol Rummel; Jennifer Wiley

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 40, No. 4 (July 2012) pp. 711–730

Schwartz and Martin ("Cogn Instr" 22:129-184, 2004) as well as Kapur ("Instr Sci", this issue, 2012) have found that students can be better prepared to learn about mathematical formulas when they try to invent them in small groups before receiving...