Inductive Method - A Procedure Through Which One Arrives at A Fact, Principle, Rule or
Inductive Method - A Procedure Through Which One Arrives at A Fact, Principle, Rule or
2. Inductive Method – a procedure through which one arrives at a fact, principle, rule or
generalization
from some specific cases or examples.
Features:
1. designed to help students develop higher-order and critical thinking while learning
specific
content at the same time
2. requires teacher's questioning skills
3. promotes high level of student involvement
4.,, increases student motivation
When to use:
1. for formulating generalization, concept, rule, truth, principle, formula or definition
Steps:
1. Preparation – reviewing of old facts, setting of goals, stating of aims
2. Presentation – presentation of cases for example
3. Comparison and abstraction - deducing common elements among the cases of
samples
presented
4. Stating of generalization, rule, definition, principle, or formula based on the
common elements
deduced from cases presented
5. Application – applying the generalization or rule learned to other problems within
or beyond
the classroom setting