Question

Which of the following is based on the discovery method of learning?

I. Principle of activity

II. Principle of logical thinking

III. Principle of purposeful experiences

IV. Principle of discovering for alternatives

1. I, II and III
2.  I, II, III and IV
3. I, III and IV
4. II, III and IV

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 :  I, II, III and IV

Discovery learning is a method of inquiry-based instruction. Jerome Bruner is often credited with originating discovery learning in the 1960s. He argues that “practice in discovery for oneself teaches one to acquire information in a way that makes that information more readily viable in problem-solving”. Discovery learning takes place in a problem-solving situation where the student draws on his/her own experience and prior knowledge. It is a method of instruction through which students interact with their environment by exploring and manipulating objects and performing experiments. In this approach, the students are actively involved to find out rules, principle and hence develop their minds by using insight and intuition to go beyond the data to find relationship and organizing structures. The method is based on the following principles:

• Principles of activity
• Principle of logical thinking
• Principle of proceeding from known to unknown
• Principle of purposeful experiences
• Principle of searching for alternatives

Hence, we conclude that the discovery method is based on the all the above-mentioned principle.