Strategies used by high-school students in solving a rule induction task

"The present study examined problem solving strategies used by high school students while working with a contrived task. The task was to determine the nature of a pattern formed by a sequence of playing cards. The subjects alternated between making a conjecture as to what rule determines which cards fit into the different positions of the sequence and then collecting more information about that sequence. Because these steps parallel key elements of ""the scientific method"" as it is typically characterized in precollege education, this investigation also provided the opportunity to examine the extent to which the component skills necessary to implement that method have become part of the subjects' working repertoire of skills that are brought to bear on a problem."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Indeck, Ken

Contributors dc:contributor

• Gould, Orrin

• Education, Educational Psychology
• Education, Secondary
• Education, Sciences

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1993 Indeck, Ken

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9314884
(UMI)AAI9314884

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20490