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Harris, Meredith T.; Noell, George H.; McIver, Elise B.; Miller, Sarah J. – Educational Studies, 2021
Research has found that factors such as content, prompts, and individual motivational differences affect instructional effectiveness. While instructional effectiveness is acritical outcome variable, the limited availability of instructional time results in instructional efficiency being acritical consideration. This study evaluated whether varying…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students, Retention (Psychology), Problem Sets
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Shiakalli, Maria Angela; Zacharos, Konstantinos – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2012
Could problem solving be the object of teaching in early education? Could appropriate teaching interventions develop to scaffold children's efforts to solve problems? These were the central questions of this article. The sample consisted of 18 children attending public pre-school in Cyprus. The problem they were asked to solve was to find all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education
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Hong, Dae S. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2011
In its mathematics standards, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) states that problem solving is an integral part of all mathematics learning and exposure to problem solving strategies should be embedded across the curriculum. Furthermore, by high school, students should be able to use, decide and invent a wide range of strategies.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Testing, Problem Solving, Mathematics Teachers