Structuring achievement goal orientation through group problem solving activities

Academic Achievement Goal Orientation: Taking Another Look

Problem Orientation, Problem Solving and Organizational Change

The widespread adoption of problem-oriented policing requires a dramatic and fundamental change in both the organizational focus of the police and the manner in which day to day policing is performed. The focus of this article is on the factors that have limited the implementation of problem-oriented policing. These are partitioned into two groups; those inhibiting the problem orientation of th...

Distributed Group Problem Solving

There are a multitude of “grand challenges” facing the world, ranging from global climate change and energy needs to growing deficits and health care costs. The increasing urgency of these challenges brings into question the abilities of society to solve such complex problems. At the same time, the Internet and social media have come to provide unprecedented access to the millions of stakeholde...

Studying Problem Solving through Group Discussion in Chat Rooms

In the present article we use a chat conversations’ corpus to study the process of resolving language problems. Our corpus includes chat conversations which took place between LSP students engaged in correcting errors in their peers’ summaries. The participants worked in groups and used the W indows Messenger program for communication within the group. Their task also included making use of ele...

Strategies for solving the N-goal problem

The problem of effectively deciding between multiple goals in real-time the "N-goal problem" is discussed in the context of computer game AI. Two related aspects of the problem, the speed of goal selection and the quality of goal selection, are identified, and two related strategies for solving these problems are introduced. The strategy of goal culling based on insistence heuristics reduces th...