Finally, discovery learning is the most independent; students devise, execute, and interpret their own experiments, often with no input from the teacher at all.

"Basically, we provide discovery learning," he said.

To a lesser degree, outcome-based education and discovery learning are also common pedagogical approaches.

And is rote learning necessarily in opposition to discovery learning?

The label of discovery learning can cover a variety of instructional techniques.

This is the basis of discovery learning.

In pure discovery learning, the learner is required to discover new content through conducting investigations or carrying out procedures while receiving little, if any, assistance.

Mayer also points out that interest in discovery learning has waxed and waned since the 1960s.

The project was noted to be similar to earlier reform methods such as progressive education, discovery learning and other influential works by John Dewey.

The approach to the project was to create a program that met between the theories of discovery learning and didactic learning.