A Criterion-Referenced Approach to Measuring Medical Problem Solving

Measuring Complex Problem Solving: The MicroDYN approach

In educational large-scale assessments such as PISA only recently an increasing interest in measuring crosscurricular competencies can be observed. These are now discovered as valuable aspects of school achievement. Complex problem solving (CPS) describes an interesting construct for the diagnostics of domain-general competencies. Here, we present MicroDYN, a new approach for computer-based ass...

A Problem-Solving Approach

Grammatical Approach to Problem Solving

The paper presents a grammatical approach to problem solving. It supports formal software specification using attribute grammars, from which a rapid prototype can be generated as well the incremental software development. Domain concepts and relationships among them have to be identified from a problem statement and represented as a context-free grammar. The obtained context-free grammar descri...

A Cultural Approach to Problem Solving

For more than 20 years, our research group has been studying why bright, hard-working students often struggle to solve problems they encounter in undergraduate chemistry courses. Our work has spanned the breadth of the sub-disciplines of chemistry, from organic chemistry to physical chemistry. This paper will begin with a review of some of the general conclusions of this work that revolve aroun...

A Formal Approach to Problem Solving

For more than forty years, problem solving is recognized as central for the understanding of reasoning in the sciences. In this paper a formal approach to problem solving is spelled out. The essential aim is to devise a formal procedure that can function as an explication of a problem-solving process—Sects. 2–5. Touchy topics in this connection are (i) the relation to the relevant philosophy of...