88. The Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-based, Experiential, and Inquiry-based Teaching
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Is PBL More Effective Than PBL?
In PBL you know you keep on getting things wrong wrong wrong until you eventually get one right and so that's the way they approach these clinical problems. Someone who has more of a guided approach a guided way of learning about medicine maybe they don't have as much experience of being wrong ten times before they're right. People trained in PBL tend to jump to conclusions and then support them rather than starting from a situation and then going towards some sort of conclusion which is not a very good thing. The negative results can be accounted for by the effect of splitting of attention resources and the high working memory load on scheme acquisition during problem solving, say Arosha and Patel.
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