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Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching

Overview of attention for article published in Educational Psychologist, June 2006
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 562)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
14 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
policy
5 policy sources
twitter
1657 X users
facebook
8 Facebook pages
wikipedia
16 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
3 Google+ users
pinterest
1 Pinner
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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3896 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
10155 Mendeley
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20 CiteULike
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1 Connotea
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Title
Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching
Published in
Educational Psychologist, June 2006
DOI 10.1207/s15326985ep4102_1
Authors

Paul A. Kirschner, John Sweller, Richard E. Clark

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 231 2%
United Kingdom 63 <1%
Spain 29 <1%
Malaysia 28 <1%
Canada 24 <1%
Netherlands 22 <1%
Germany 20 <1%
Australia 20 <1%
Indonesia 19 <1%
Other 215 2%
Unknown 9484 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 2035 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1587 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 933 9%
Student > Bachelor 870 9%
Student > Postgraduate 841 8%
Other 2820 28%
Unknown 1069 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6086 60%
Psychology 443 4%
Computer Science 328 3%
Arts and Humanities 288 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 235 2%
Other 1491 15%
Unknown 1284 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1351. 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 11 March 2024.
All research outputs
#9,504
of 25,516,314 outputs
Outputs from Educational Psychologist
#1
of 562 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2
of 86,770 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Educational Psychologist
#1
of 4 outputs
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