Date of Award
1987
Type
Thesis
Major
Specialist in Education
Degree Type
Specialist Degree in Education
Department
Teacher Education
First Advisor
Dr. Ernest Riggsby
Second Advisor
Dr. Carolyn Cartledge
Third Advisor
Dr. Bob Henderson
Abstract
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.
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.
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.
Recommended Citation
Meeks, Linda, "The Relationship Between the Strategies of Adolescents on Microcomputers in Problem-Solving Sessions and Problem-Solving Times" (1987). Theses and Dissertations. 605.
https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/605
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