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Direct linkSquire, Kurt D. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2008
Interactive digital media, or video games, are a powerful new medium. They offer immersive experiences in which players solve problems. Players learn more than just facts--ways of seeing and understanding problems so that they "become" different kinds of people. "Serious games" coming from business strategy, advergaming, and entertainment gaming…
Descriptors: Video Games, Models, Educational Change, Interactive Video
Zingale, Marinella; Belfiore, Giovanni; Mongelli, Vita; Trubia, Grazia; Buono, Serafino – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
The authors present the outcomes of three parent training experiences carried out at the Research Institute "OASI MARIA SS" in Troina, Italy, which were designed to facilitate the acquisition of specific competencies and to promote educational effectiveness within the family. Some 30 families (all with a member with autistic disorder or…
Descriptors: Severe Mental Retardation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Lawton, Joseph T.; Berning, Rebecca A. – 1982
The development of social problem-solving skills in preschool children (namely, cooperative play, sharing, taking turns, understanding another person's feelings, helping, and the verbal resolution of conflict) was assessed following instruction under three conditions. A total of 35 children, of whom 18 attended a formally structured preschool…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comparative Analysis, Instruction, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedWilliams, Sheri S. – High School Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Diagrams
Download full textRecker, Margaret M.; Pirolli, Peter – 1990
Students learning to program recursive LISP functions in a typical school-like lesson on recursion were observed. The typical lesson contains text and examples and involves solving a series of programming problems. The focus of this study is on students' learning strategies in new domains. In this light, a Soar computational model of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies
Nickerson, Raymond S. – 1983
This paper is a commentary on three other papers presented at the 1983 American Educational Research Association Symposium on "The Trainability of Information Processing and Problem Solving Skills." The papers focus on certain aspects of the training of complex skills, such as reading, that can presumably be broken down into a variety of skills.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Games, Problem Solving, Reading Skills
Valett, Robert E. – 1986
This document was written for junior and senior high school students to help them learn to cope more effectively with their problems. It is intended as a quide for helping adolescents explore and solve problems through constructive critical thinking. Ten steps in the process of constructive critical thinking are presented with personal and social…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Coping, Critical Thinking
Denenberg, Stewart A. – 1988
This paper describes part of a course for college freshmen entitled "Computation, Reasoning, and Problem Solving," which uses the LOGO programming language to integrate computer programming skills, collaborative problem solving skills, and writing skills. Discussion of the computer programming component includes two of the LOGO problem…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Discovery Learning, Higher Education
Moursund, David; And Others – Computing Teacher, 1985
This document consists of a compilation of nine articles, on computer literacy, that have been extracted from the 1984-1985 issues of the journal "The Computing Teacher". The articles include: (1) "ICLEP (Individual Computer Literacy Education Plan): A Powerful Idea" (David Moursund); (2) "Computers, Kids, and Values"…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Databases, Equal Education, Instructional Material Evaluation
AULT, LESLIE H. – 1968
AS PART OF THE EVALUATION OF A MULTI-MEDIA COURSE FOR MANAGERIAL PERSONNEL ON PROBLEM-SOLVING DISCUSSIONS, A SPECIAL CASE WAS DEVELOPED TO TEST TRAINEES' APPLICATION OF THEIR SKILLS IN A NEW SETTING. THE CASE PLACED EACH SUBJECT IN THE ROLE OF A PLANT MANAGER WITH A PROBLEM TO SOLVE, WITH TWO SUBORDINATES AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION. THE ROLES OF…
Descriptors: Management Development, Problem Solving, Research, Role Playing
Zaharis, James K.; And Others – 1971
This skill laboratory provides a technique for problem definition and alternative methods to gather pertinent data that surrounds a given situation. Seven skills are discussed including Kaufman's tri-level needs assessment model, intergroup building, organizational slice, force field analysis, brainstorming, problem definition, and conflict…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Performance Contracts
Peer reviewedHoutz, John; Feldhusen, John – Journal of Psychology, 1977
Provides additional data to explain the reverse effects of rewards on task performances for training problem-solving skills in fourth-graders. (RL)
Descriptors: Children, Contingency Management, Grade 4, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedEllis, Arthur K.; Glenn, Allen D. – Journal of Economic Education, 1977
A study examined three different approaches to the teaching of economic concepts and the development of problem-solving skills: a real life problem-solving experience, a contrived experience using simulation and gaming, and a discussion-workbook experience. (Author/JR)
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Economics, Economics Education, Educational Research
Peer reviewedKneedler, Peter E. – Social Studies Review, 1988
Discusses the importance of critical thinking for participation in democratic society and identifies the critical thinking skills tested in the eighth grade California Assessment Program. Provides an extensive appendix detailing a critical thinking skills continuum, a glossary of terms, and classroom strategies. (GEA)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Grade 8, Junior High Schools
Peer reviewedJones, Rose L.; Williams, David L. – Journal of the American Association of Teacher Educators in Agriculture, 1986
Although agricultural education professors held a positive attitude toward cognitive skill development and frequently used cognitive skill development techniques in their classrooms, the average attitude score and the average use score were lower than might have been expected considering agricultural education's historical commitment to problem…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Cognitive Ability, Higher Education, Problem Solving
