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Problem-Solving Processes of High and Average Performers in Physics.

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Coleman, Elaine B.; Shore, Bruce – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1991

This study examined the problem-solving protocols of 21 students in a grade 11 enriched physics course as well as 3 adult "experts" in physics. Experts and high performing students made more correct metastatements and more references to prior knowledge than did average performing students. (DB)

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academically Gifted, Grade 11, High Achievement

Report of U.S.-Japan Cross-National Research on Students' Problem Solving Behaviors.

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Becker, Jerry P., Ed. – 1992

In 1986 the United States (U.S.)-Japan Seminar on Mathematical Problem Solving convened to compare the state of problem solving in the classroom and in research in the two countries. The data and results given in this paper are the results of research conducted in the United States in response to the 1986 seminar. The U.S. and Japanese research…

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style