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Direct linkElaine Kit Ling Yeung; Miao Zhong; Jing Huang; Man Ho Chan; Carrey Tik Sze Siu; Him Cheung – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
This study compares direct instruction to two constructivist approaches, namely experimentation and problem-based learning, in fifth-grade science learning in Hong Kong. Constructivist instructional approaches, contrary to direct instruction, stress on students' active role in constructing knowledge in learning. Experimentation and problem-based…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Science Instruction, Outcomes of Education, Problem Based Learning
Downing, Kevin; Ning, Flora; Shin, Kristina – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) in higher education based on a large sample of first-year undergraduates from two programmes at a Hong Kong University (n=132). One programme uses an entirely problem-based approach to learning, whilst the other uses traditional methods.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Problem Based Learning, Metacognition, Foreign Countries
