Designing for Productive Failure

By Manu Kapur, Katerine Bielaczyc. 2012

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Statistics and Probability

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Foundations of Game-Based Learning (2015, background): “…for game-based learning is that it allows for graceful failure: Rather than describing it as an undesirable outcome, failure is by design an expected and some-times even necessary step in the learning process (Kapur, 2008; Kapur & Bielaczyc, 2012; Kapur & Kinzer, 2009; Plass, Perlin, et al., 2010).”
Does group composition affect learning by invention? (2012, background): “Kapur has obtained similar findings in several studies using invention activities about rate/speed formulas and the standard deviation formula (Kapur 2012; Kapur and Bielaczyc 2011).”
Examining Productive Failure, Productive Success, Unproductive Failure, and Unproductive Success in Learning (2016, background): “When designing for productive failure in the real ecologies of classroom, it further helps if appropriate disciplinary norms and expectations for problem solving and learning are set and reinforced (for a fuller explication of design principles of productive failure, see Kapur & Bielaczyc, 2012).”
Teacher Competencies for the Implementation of Collaborative Learning in the Classroom: a Framework and Research Review (2015, background): “We focus on a typical instructional approach, namely productive failure (e.g., Kapur 2010, 2011; Kapur and Bielaczyc 2012), which is one of few instructional approaches that takes a closer look at consolidating group work results.”
Delayed benefits of learning elementary algebraic transformations through contrasted comparisons (2014, background): “Comparison is often desirable for students to encounter difficulties during learning as a result of instructional impediments because it pushes learners to overcome difficulties they otherwise would not experience (Bjork, 1994; Kapur & Bielaczyc, 2012).”
Opportunities for learning given to prospective mathematics teachers: between ritual and explorative instruction (2015, background): “Kapur and Bielaczyc (2012) show how students who experience temporary failure while attempting to solve problems in groups outperform those who are directly instructed with methods for solving the same problems.”
Productive struggle in middle school mathematics classrooms (2015, background): “However, the struggle that seemed intractable for the student during these tasks became identifiable and thus perhaps useful in a future task (Kapur and Bielaczyc 2012).”
Towards a Theory of When and How Problem Solving Followed by Instruction Supports Learning (2017, background): “Kapur and Bielaczyc (2012) proposed several mechanisms to explain the effectiveness of one particular type of PS-I implementation, Productive Failure.”
Managing Uncertainty During Collaborative Problem Solving in Elementary School Teams: The Role of Peer Influence in Robotics Engineering Activity (2014, background): “This is because as these activities come together in the same space, students find themselves engaged in complex patterns of social interaction that facilitate learning: explaining, critiquing, elaborating, and generating multiple representations and methods (Chi, 2009; Kapur & Bielaczyc, 2012).”
Understanding Difficulties and Resulting Confusion in Learning: An Integrative Review (2018, background): “Despite the different kinds of tasks used, there are clear parallels between the “failure” aspect of productive failure, and the “difficulties” encountered by students within a desirable difficulty paradigm (Kapur and Bielaczyc, 2012).”
How Retrieval Attempts Affect Learning: A Review and Synthesis (2016, background): “Furthermore, these benefits have been extended from the laboratory to the classroom (eg, Kapur & Bielaczyc, 2012).”
Comparing Learning From Productive Failure and Vicarious Failure (2014, methodology): “In this short article, I examine this question in the context of my work on productive failure (PF; Kapur, 2008; Kapur & Bielaczyc, 2012).”