Which of the following statements is not correct with respect to the…

Constructivism is a theory of learning (associated with Piaget, Bruner, and Vygotsky) holding that learners actively construct their own knowledge through personal effort, experience, and reflection, rather than receiving ready-made facts from a teacher. It is learner-centered (child-centered), and it is typically enacted through discovery learning, inquiry-based methods, and social/collaborative inquiry. This stands in contrast to transmissive or behaviourist models of teaching, where the teacher directly delivers predetermined content or results for the student to absorb.

Checking each statement against this principle shows that three of the four statements correctly describe constructivism, while one statement instead describes the transmissive model — filling ready-made results directly into the student's mind — which is the opposite of constructivist knowledge-building. That statement is therefore the one that is 'not correct' with respect to the constructivist approach.

• Acquiring knowledge through one's own efforts / self-creation of knowledge — matches the constructivist principle of active, self-directed knowledge construction.

• Filling the results obtained from it directly in the mind of the student — describes direct transmission of pre-formed content, which is the transmissive/behaviourist model, not constructivism.

• Emphasis on discovery learning, inquiry method and social inquiry — matches constructivist pedagogy, such as discovery learning and social constructivism.

• Constructivism approach is child centered — matches the constructivist principle that the learner is the active center of the learning process.

Hence, the statement describing knowledge as being filled directly into the student's mind is the statement that is not correct about constructivism.