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Ng, Kit Ee Dawn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
This paper investigates the impact of group dynamics on metacognitive behaviours of students (aged 13-14) during group collaborative problem solving attempts involving a design-based real-world applications project. It was discovered that group dynamics mediated the impact of metacognitive judgments related red flag situations and metacognitive…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Group Dynamics
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Kapur, Manu – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
This paper reports on a quasi-experimental study comparing a "productive failure" instructional design (Kapur in Cognition and Instruction 26(3):379-424, 2008) with a traditional "lecture and practice" instructional design for a 2-week curricular unit on rate and speed. Seventy-five, 7th-grade mathematics students from a…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Foreign Countries, Lecture Method, Problem Solving