Collaborative intellectual engagement is held in high regard in contemporary educational
thought as a pedagogical practice of broad value to K–12 students. To what extent is this …

Recently, there has been a growing interest in learning approaches that combine two
phases: an initial problem-solving phase followed by an instruction phase (PS-I). Two often …

Learning and performance are not always commensurable. Conditions that maximize
performance in the initial learning may not maximize learning in the longer term. I exploit this …

When learning a new math concept, should learners be first taught the concept and its
associated procedures and then solve problems, or solve problems first even if it leads to …

This study demonstrates an existence proof for productive failure: engaging students in
solving complex, ill-structured problems without the provision of support structures can be a …

Navigating scientific challenges, persevering through difficulties, and coping with failure are
considered hallmarks of a successful scientist. However, relatively few studies investigate …

The paper reports a quasi-experimental study comparing the “traditional flipped classroom”
pedagogical design with the “productive failure”(Kapur, 2016) pedagogical design in the …

Singaporean elementary-school students (N= 299) completed Child Implicit Association
Tests (Child IAT) as well as explicit measures of gender identity, math–gender stereotypes …

I advance a theoretically and empirically-grounded case for designing for and learning from
failure, and instantiate it in a learning design called Productive Failure (PF). I describe the …

The authors searched five scholarly databases for a decade of research publications
examining learning from failure as an instructional strategy. Out of 187 publications, 62 were …