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Simon, Marty – 1986
Through individual interviews with remedial and precalculus university students, five characteristics of the student were identified that influence whether a diagram is used in solving a problem and whether its use is successful. The interviews also suggested a set of subskills that contribute to the overall ability to draw effective diagrams.…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Diagrams, Higher Education, Interviews
Download full textSchunk, Dale H. – 1984
This experiment tested the hypothesis that the sequence of ability and effort attributional feedback influences children's attributions, self-efficacy, and skillful performance. Children deficient in subtraction skills received training on subtraction operations and solved problems over four sessions. During the problem solving, some children…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Elementary School Students, Feedback
Bowie, Melvin McKinney – 1986
A brief discussion of three phases in research on instructional films--whether films can teach (approximately 1910-1950), how films teach (1940 through the late 1950s), and who learns from films (1960-1985)--introduces a review of the research literature on the third phase. The experimental studies reviewed focus on three concerns: (1) use of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Individual Differences, Instructional Films
Baker, Dale R.; Piburn, Michael D. – 1988
The purpose of this study was to identify factors responsible for the perceived decline in attitudes toward science observed in an intervention study designed to enhance scientific literacy. The literacy study focuses on a new freshman course in an urban Catholic high school. Negative attitudes toward science were found to be related to the demand…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Locus of Control, Mastery Learning, Problem Solving
McAllister, Alan – 1985
Based on current models of problem solving within cognitive psychology, this study focused on the spontaneous problem solving strategies used by children as they first learned LOGO computer programming, and on strategy transformations that took place during the problem solving process. The research consisted of a six weeks programming training…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Cognitive Style, Courseware
Peer reviewedWan, Teh-yuan; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1992
A study of 412 foreign graduate students investigated their (1) perceptions of the stressfulness of role demands and (2) abilities to cope with those demands. Results indicated students associated English language skills and cultural distance with stresses and language, academic, and problem-solving skills with coping capacity. Implications for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Coping, English (Second Language)
