What Kind of Failure is the Mother of Success?—Instructional Design of STEM under the Perspective of Productive Failure

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2020.06.004

Abstract

Abstract: As a productive way to cultivate innovation, STEM has drawn a lot of attention domestically and abroad. However, there are few research on STEM instructional design and there are also many misunderstandings in practice. In the STEM class, students often face so demanding tasks that failure is inevitable. However, failure provides us a perspective to study STEM instructional design. In this paper, we use a design-based research method to iterate the theoretical prototype in practice and constructe a productive guiding paradigm of STEM. Then we compare three types of teaching, from which it is found that the productive guiding type is significantly better than the unsupervised and guided in the migration effect. At the same time, the four types of behaviors including productive failure, productive success, unproductive failure and unproductive success are coded to further clarify the connotation of different behavior types, thus deepening the understanding of failure and success. Effective class behavior can promote migration, while effective class behavior occurs in the effective guidance type. Our study develops Kapur’s theory of productive failure, and puts forward suggestions for STEM instructional design from the aspects of goal, evaluation and process, which have enlightenments for STEM teaching and the competency-oriented teaching reform at present.

Key words: STEM, productive failure, instructional design

Liu Hui, Yang Jiaxin, Xu Lingling, Zhang Peng, Wang Siyan. What Kind of Failure is the Mother of Success?—Instructional Design of STEM under the Perspective of Productive Failure[J]. Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences), 2020, 38(6): 43-69.

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