The Relationship Between the Strategies of Adolescents on Microcomputers in Problem-Solving Sessions and Problem-Solving Times

<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between strategies used by students in problem solving and the amount of time necessary for the problem solution.</p> <p>A portion of the curriculum for 7th grade Life Science, teaching problem solving, was converted into three computer problem-solving tasks to be done by 76 seventh graders who worked in pairs to solve the problems. Each pair of students timed themselves as they worked toward a solution while the computer recorded the number of clues used in order to reach a solution. The Pearson product-moment correlation was used to obtain a coefficient r which expressed in mathematical terms the degree of relationship be tween the two variables.</p> <p>It was found that the correlation between the time needed to reach a solution on all three problem-solving programs and the number of clues, or strategies, used to solved the problem was significant at the 0.001 level on a two-tailed test.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Specialist in Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Teacher Education

Year

1987

Author dc:creator

• Meeks, Linda

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Ernest Riggsby
• Dr. Carolyn Cartledge
• Dr. Bob Henderson

• Seventh Grade
• 7th Grade
• Life Science
• Problem-Solving
• Research
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Science and Mathematics Education

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/605

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:csuepress.columbusstate.edu:theses_dissertations-1610