An intelligent tutoring system (ITS) is often described as having an inner loop for supporting solving tasks step by step, and an outer loop for selecting tasks. Many task domains have problem-solving procedures that express how tasks can be solved by applying steps or rules in a controlled way. In this paper we collect established ITS design principles, and use the principles to compare and ev...

In ill-structured tasks, the problem to be solved is poorly specified and there is no unique correct solution. Most evidence on brain mechanisms involved in dealing with such tasks comes from neuropsychology. Here, we developed an ill-structured design task suitable for testing in a functional neuroimaging environment and compared it with a matched well-structured problem-solving task using fMR...

A typology of problems is presented that is used for indexing and accessing reusable problem solving components in a library that supports the CommonKADS methodology for building knowledge based systems. Eight types of problems, such as planning, assessment etc., are distinguished, and their dependencies are explained. These dependencies suggest that the typology is to be viewed as a “suite” ra...

Rates of innovative foraging behaviours and success on problem-solving tasks are often used to assay differences in cognition, both within and across species. Yet the cognitive features of some problem-solving tasks can be unclear. As such, explanations that attribute cognitive mechanisms to individual variation in problem-solving performance have revealed conflicting results. We investigated i...

background: today’s nursing graduates value ability to creatively solve problems and make decisions, as these skills assist hem with recognizing and evaluating situations that require prompt attention. this study aimed to determine and compare nursing student’s perceived levels of own problem solving skills in various years of their 4-year program. methods: this is a cross-sectional study. all ...

over the past decade, there have been several studies showing autobiographical memory retrieval and problem‑solving deficits in depressed population. the present study aimed to first to examine the roles of autobiographical memory specificity and problemsolving effectiveness in iranian depressed people with or without suicide ideation and secondly, to test the correlations between autobiographi...

the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of coping stress skills training on stress and problem solving skill in taleghani dormitory students in kermanshah medical sciences university. the research method is experimental and has been done with pre-test, post-test and control group. research tools were harry inventory (2005) and endler and parker coping scale of stressful situation (1...

nowadays, improvement of thinking skills of students is one of the universally supported aims in the majority of medical schools. this study aims to design longitudinal theme of reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making into the undergraduate medical curriculum at tehran university of medical sciences (tums). a participatory approach was applied to design the curriculum during 2009-2011. t...