Students Can Learn by Explaining, Studies Say
By Sarah D. Sparks Washington, Education Week, June 2013
Children are quick to ask "why?" and "how?" when it comes to new things, but research suggests elementary and preschool students learn more when teachers turn the questions back on them.
In a symposium at the annual Association for Psychological Science research meeting in May 2013, panelists discussed how and when asking students for explanations can best enhance their learning.
"Often students are able to say facts, but not able to understand the underlying mathematics concept, or transfer a problem in math to a similar problem in chemistry," said Joseph Jay Williams, a cognitive science and online education researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
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