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Using Text Mining to Elucidate Mental Models of Problem Spaces for Ill-Structured Problems
Constructing a consensus problem space from extensive qualitative data for an ill-structured real-life problem and expressing the result to a broader...
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Constructivist gamification environment model designing framework to improve ill-structured problem solving in learning sciences
This study is focusing on synthesizing the theoretical and designing framework of constructivist gamification environment models to enhance...
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Using social media affordances to support Ill-structured problem-solving skills: considering possibilities and challenges
Educators consider the development of problem-solving skills in learners to be a primary goal of contemporary teaching and learning efforts. Yet,...
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The influence of resource interdependence during problem solving in groups: tracking changes in knowledge structure
This experimental investigation seeks to confirm and extend previous investigations that resource interdependence vs. independence during...
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An exploration of the relationship between argumentative prompts and depth to elicit alternative positions in ill-structured problem solving
Little is known about the role of prompts to help learners solve ill-structured learning problems. Instructors do not devote adequate time to...
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Designing a Framework to Facilitate Metacognitive Strategy Development in Computer-Mediated Problem-Solving Instruction
Metacognition is a key component of ill-structured problem solving. As such, there is a need for instructional design guidance for metacognitive...
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Exploring the relationship between students’ information problem solving patterns and epistemic beliefs: a mixed methods sequential analysis study
Information problem solving (IPS) is an important twenty-first century skill, but it is lacking at all age levels. One type of information problem,...
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Investigating Preservice Teachers’ Educational Technology Skills: A Problem-Solving Process
Considering preservice teachers’ reflections on their best academic learning experiences, the purpose of this research was to use a problem-solving...
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Expertise Development in the Workplace Through Deliberate Practice and Progressive Problem Solving: Insights from Business-to-Business Sales Departments
Expertise is featured by continued high performance in a particular domain. Expertise research has primarily focused on absolute expertise in...
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Scaffolding Pre-service Science Teachers’ Problem-Solving Strategies in a Methane Gas Detector Task Within an Earthquake-Robotics PD Course
Educational robotics (ER) has the potential to be a novel approach to teaching geohazards such as earthquakes at the college level. ER, which...
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Designing Problem-Solving for Meaningful Learning: A Discussion of Asia-Pacific Research
The centrality of problem-solving in our daily encounters has brought increased recognition for it to play a pivotal role in education. Designing...
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The effect of emotive case construction on knowledge acquisition and ethical sense-making
The use of ill-structured case examples as an instructional strategy to teach ethical lessons is well-supported in the literature, however, case...
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Designing Problem-Solving for Meaningful Learning: A Discussion of the Asia-Pacific Research
The centrality of problem-solving in our daily encounters has brought increased recognition for it to play a pivotal role in education. Designing...
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Problem-Solving in Science and Technology Education
This chapter focuses on problem-solving, which involves describing a problem, figuring out its root cause, locating, ranking and choosing potential...
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The Challenge and Opportunities of STEM Learning Efficacy for Living Technology Through a Transdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning Activity
According to extensive research, problem-based learning (PBL) in STEM education improves student learning outcomes and supports them in gaining...
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Problem Solving and Mathematical Modelling
Together with the growth in knowledge over time, there has been a corresponding increase in the complexity of problems that need to be solved. The...
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Constructing problems in context: a synthesized model of dialectical problem-framing
The goal of this article is to propose a framework for understanding the nature of how people construct problems by interacting with situations and...
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Undergraduate students’ beliefs about diverse approaches to making engineering design decisions: Exploring change during a capstone course
Well-structured, de-contextualized problems that can be solved using solely technical approaches remain a large component of the engineering...
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Systems Thinking and Modeling: From Butterfly Posture to Artificial Intelligence
One hundred years ago, Paul Weiss and Ludwig von Bertalanffy independently proposed that living organisms interact with their environment through...
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Understanding Learners’ Challenges and Scaffolding their Ill-structured Problem Solving in a Technology-Supported Self-Regulated Learning Environment
The purpose of this chapter is to understand learners’ challenges in ill-structured problem solving and identify effective strategies and tools to...