Assertion (A): A teacher should encourage her students to make intuitive guesses about answer to a question. Reason (R): Students should be instructed to answer only when they are absolutely sure of the correct answer. Choose the correct option.

Assertion (A): A teacher should encourage her students to make intuitive guesses about answer to a question. Reason (R): Students should be instructed to answer only when they are absolutely sure of the correct answer. Choose the correct option. Correct Answer (A) is true but (R) is false.

Jerome Bruner's research on thinking is based on his interest in educational approaches that "encourage the development of thinking".

• Bruner emphasized the importance of understanding and the need for active learning as the basis for true understanding, and the value of reasoning in learning.

Key Points

• The term inquiry learning is interchangeable with discovery learning. Discovery learning is coined by "Jerome Bruner". 
• The purpose of this type of learning is to develop students' thinking skills. Discovery Learning encourages students to actively use their "intuition", "imagination", and "creativity".
• Bruner suggested that teachers should encourage students to make intuitive guesses about answer to a question with the help of some incomplete sentences, tasks, or situations.
• Guesses of learners may be right or wrong but they should be promoted. Teachers should not discourage wrong guesses, because through guessing only you can develop intuitive thinking among students.

Hint 

• Students shouldn't be instructed to answer only when they are absolutely sure of the correct answer because it will hinder students' ability of thinking and using reasoning. 

Hence, we can conclude that (A) is true but (R) is false.