Metacognitive Knowledge Predicts Success in Problem Solving Transfer

A Comparison of the Metacognitive Knowledge of Weak and Strong Students in Problem Solving

This study sought to compare the metacognitive knowledge profile of weak and strong students in problem solving. For achieving this purpose, one hundred students of the second educational District of Tehran were chosen by cluster sampling. They responded individually to the questions of "the Metacognitive Questionnaire Interview" and in the next step their performance in the pendulum problem so...

Teaching Problem-Solving Skills from Metacognitive Perspective

The topic emphasized here advances the idea of education for sustainable development that empowers learners to be globally competent and competitive professionals. The author concentrates attention on the thinking skills we would like our students to exhibit when addressing unstructured problems, emphasizing the issue of metacognitive instruction, which helps to translate general directions of ...

A Metacognitive Stopping Rule for Problem Solving

Although people expect to improve by investing effort in solving a problem, several studies have found negative timeconfidence correlations in various problem-solving tasks. The present study employed the metacognitive approach to illuminate why, despite lengthy thinking, people provide solutions in which they have only low confidence. According to the proposed Diminishing Criterion Model (DCM)...

Modeling Metacognitive Activities in Medical Problem- Solving with BioWorld

Predictors of Success in Diagrammatic Problem Solving

We conducted an eye-tracking study of mechanical problem solving from cross-sectional diagrams of devices. Response time, accuracy and eye movement data were collected and analyzed for 72 problem-solving episodes (9 subjects solving 8 problems each). Results indicate that longer response times and visually attending to more components of a device do not necessarily lead to increased accuracy. H...