A Study of Discovery and Expository Presentation: Implications for Teaching

over into the production of commercial texts; educators today find themselves inundated with textual materials that purport to be designed specifically for use in teaching by discovery. Adherents of the discovery method are vociferous in their claims for its superiority as a method of teaching. They argue strongly that discovery learning enhances retention and transfer of concepts (6, i8, 8, 5, 3, 11), pupil motivation (5,