I am reading a 2006 paper by Kirschner, Sweller and Clark on "Why
Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the
Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and
Inquiry-Based Teaching".
I am interested because I am thinking about how to teach science
students to do some basic programming, partly in order to teach
statistics.
The paper's conclusions are in the title; giving inexperienced students
a difficult problem and telling them to go away and solve it, doesn't
work very well.
Here's a quote describing the effects of mixing basic science and
clinical education using Problem Based Learning (PBL) in medicine:
PBL students generated more elaborate explanations, they had less coherent explanations and more errors.
It seems to me that what they are describing, is that the PBL students tended to bullshit.
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