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Does Discovery-Based Instruction Enhance Learning?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Educational Psychology, February 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
26 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
1743 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Does Discovery-Based Instruction Enhance Learning?
Published in
Journal of Educational Psychology, February 2011
DOI 10.1037/a0021017
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 26 1%
Netherlands 10 <1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
New Zealand 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Other 6 <1%
Unknown 1684 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 217 12%
Student > Master 206 12%
Student > Bachelor 142 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 118 7%
Researcher 107 6%
Other 352 20%
Unknown 601 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 324 19%
Psychology 191 11%
Computer Science 70 4%
Arts and Humanities 69 4%
Mathematics 59 3%
Other 370 21%
Unknown 660 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 August 2026.
All research outputs
#747,535
of 34,318,950 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Educational Psychology
#74
of 2,944 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,047
of 256,107 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Educational Psychology
#1
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,318,950 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,944 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.