{"pk":28880,"title":"When Productive Failure Fails","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Productive Failure (PF) is a learning design that intentionallydesigns for and uses failure in preparatory problem-solving forlearning. Over the past decade, there has been growing ev-idence supporting the effectiveness of learning from PF. Thepurpose of this paper, however, is to critically examine evi-dence for when PF fails. We analyze 95 experimental compar-isons from 57 studies reported in 44 articles into the extent towhich they conform to PF design criteria. These criteria, asoutlined in the original PF work, span the problem-solving ac-tivity, the participation structures, and the social surround. Re-sults suggest lack of design fidelity as a critical factor for whenPF fails to outperform alternative instructional approaches onconceptual knowledge and/or transfer.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Direct Instruction; Productive Failure; Scaffolding"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89k7p1wr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tanmay","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sinha","name_suffix":"","institution":"ETH Zurich","department":""},{"first_name":"Manu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kapur","name_suffix":"","institution":"ETH Zurich","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T23:30:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28880/galley/18751/download/"}]}