This paper explores the sources of ideas for innovation in engineering design. The paper shows that engineering designers involved in complex, non-routine design processes rely heavily on face-to-face conversations with other designers for solving problems and developing new innovative ideas. The research is based on a case study and survey of designers from Ove Arup & Partners, a leading inter...

Nowadays professional success and personal satisfaction can be greatly improved by innovations. To actually compare research results a number of tests have been developed over the past 65 years, which presumably measure traits that are believed to be connected to innovation and therefore creative problem solving and creativity. At the same time different conditions have been identified that sup...

Experience plays an important role in properly preparing agriculture students, but without supervision, the experience may do more harm than good. If the practice is incorrect, then the performance is likely to be incorrect (Binkiey & Tulloch, 1981). While this may be stating the obvious, this is the model that has been successfully used in agricultural education from its beginning. The basic p...

It has long been recognized that hierarchical problem solving can be used to reduce search. Yet, there has been little analysis of the problemsolving method and few experimental results. This paper provides the first comprehensive analytical and empirical demonstrations of the effectiveness of hierarchical problem solving. First, the paper shows analytically that hierarchical problem solving ca...

Law Encoding Diagrams, LEDs, are a form of diagrammatic representation found in various discoveries in the history of science. This paper discusses the concept of LEDs, analyses examples of inductive and deductive discovery with LEDs, and considers the potential benefits of reasoning and problem solving with

There is a considerable amount of research evidence that some supervision practices in community corrections are more effective than others. This study considers the impact of a supervision model which is based on practices which the research has found to be effective, in particular a focus on high risk offenders, the use of problem solving, a pro-social approach and the use of empathy. The fir...

Title of thesis: THE ROLE OF PROVIDER-ROLE IDEOLOGY AND CONSISTENCY IN COUPLE COMMUNICATION Jessica Lynn Brenneman, Master of Science, 2010 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor Leigh A. Leslie Department of Family Science This study investigated how problem solving and conflict in couples’ communication is affected by their beliefs about provider role ideology, and the consistency between th...

Inaccurate judgments of task difficulty and invested mental effort may negatively affect how accurate students monitor their own performance. When students are not able to accurately monitor their own performance, they cannot control their learning effectively (e.g., allocate adequate mental effort and study time). Although students’ judgments of task difficulty and invested mental effort are c...

Self-explanation is one of the most effective learning strategies, resulting in deep knowledge. In this paper, we discuss how NORMIT supports self-explanation. NORMIT is a constraint-based tutor that teaches data normalization. We present the system first, and then discuss how it supports self-explanation. We hypothesized the self-explanation support in NORMIT would result in increased problem ...

Like everywhere in our culture, new .technologies gradually penetrate the field of education. This may be seen as a problem area, which asks for appropriate, actions by teachers, curriculum experts, instructional designers and others. As "technology" seems to be the main issue, one may quation whether the introduction of new technologies is to be considered as' an educationaa technological prob...