Formative feedback is integral for the learning of difficult skills such as problem solving. To understand why less than ideal amounts are sometimes provided to students, this study elicited undergraduate engineering instructors’ intentions, and then observed their actions regarding formative on midterm exams in courses that purport teach Intentions were collected through a survey emulated inte...

Teaching students how to solve problems is an important goal of education and industrial arts/technology education has had a long history of providing an environment for developing these skills. The congruence of technology education and problem solving is based on the fact that technologies are, in many ways, a product of problem solving. Technological problems require the application of knowl...

Practitioners have long stressed the need to teach professional commumcations skills to planning students. This paper describes ten years of experience in teaching a course in which communications skills and techniques of gathering and analyzing information are taught concurrently while investigating a problem of importance in the community. The course involves an ongoing collaboration, a "marr...

Background: The success of therapeutic results of assisted reproductive techniques is related to several factors, including the extent of female anxiety. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of training problem solving skills on the anxiety of female candidates for intrauterine insemination in Moheb Yas Hospital in Tehran (2015). Methods: This experimental study was a two-group de...

Problem solving skills in complex situations are particularly valued by health services and we need to develop this ability within the public health workforce. Research by Breen for the UK National Health Service found that effective workplace learning had three characteristics: it involved problem solving, occurred through group work and had the support of management.1 Problem-based learning (...

This paper presents the core ideas of my doctoral research project. The purposes of my research are (1) to investigate better means to make students learn important metacognitive skills (such as planning and self−monitoring) during problem solving activities when using a computer based learning environments; (2) to design and develop a learning system that can act as a assistant that helps stud...