objective: interventions for people suffering from borderline personality disorder (bpd), such as dialectical behavior therapy, often include a problem-solving component. however, there is an absence of published studies examining the problem-solving abilities of this client group in iran. the study compared inpatients and outpatients with bpd and a control group on problem-solving capabilities...

introduction: the term dynamic assessment (da) refers to an assessment, by an active teaching process, of a child's perception, learning, thinking, and problem solving. the process is aimed at modifying an individual's cognitive functioning and observing subsequent changes in learning and problem-solving patterns within the testing situation. da has been advocated as an alternative an...

This study investigates the contribution of Group Support Systems (GSS) to collaborative learning environments. We propose a model explaining the effect of GSS on the acquisition of problem solving knowledge. We also discuss the results of an empirical study designed to test the predictions of the proposed model. In the empirical study, a GSS supported environment is compared to a traditional f...

Productive Failure (PF) – comprising initial problem solving and delayed instruction – has been proven effective for learning when compared to Direct Instruction (DI) in multiple studies with high school and university students. Although the problem-solving phase is usually implemented in a collaborative setting, the role of collaboration for the effectiveness of PF remains unclear. In two quas...

Collaborative spatial problem solving is an important yet not thoroughly examined task. Participants navigated individually and in dyads through virtual cities of varying complexity. They only saw the environment part visible from their current location from a bird’s eye view map perspective. We recorded missed target locations, overall trajectory length and search time per person until self-in...

It is believed that computer-supported collaboration at a distance can stimulate learning. In this paper an innovative environment that permits real-time collaborative problem solving is described. In particular we study the effect of two alternative coordination mechanisms on the problem solving activity of pairs of students engaged in concept map building. The first mechanism imposes locking ...

This study demonstrates that explicit metacognitive training appear to benefit lower achievers’ mathematical word problem solving in a computer environment. 11 to 12year-old Singaporean students in collaborative pairs were assigned to two word problem solving groups. The first group received explicit metacognitive training before word problem solving with WordMath (treatment); and the second gr...

Working collaboratively holds many benefits for learners. However, varying incoming knowledge and attitudes toward collaboration present challenges and can lead to frustration for students. An important open question is how to support effective collaboration and foster equity for students with different levels of incoming preparation. In this study, we compared two collaborative instructional a...

The focus of this paper is on time-constrained collaborative problem solving using common web-based communication systems. The rescue action of a missing Polish kite surfer conducted with help of the kiteforum.pl community created a unique opportunity to investigate how people organize such actions in the Internet and how they collaborate under the enormous pressure of time. Quantitative and qu...