The topic emphasized here advances the idea of education for sustainable development that empowers learners to be globally competent and competitive professionals. The author concentrates attention on the thinking skills we would like our students to exhibit when addressing unstructured problems, emphasizing the issue of metacognitive instruction, which helps to translate general directions of ...

Critical thinking is a learned skill that requires instruction and practice. Business education instructors at both the secondary and post-secondary levels can enhance students’ critical thinking skills by (1) using instructional strategies that actively engage students in the learning process rather than relying on lecture and rote memorization, (2) focusing instruction on the process of learn...

This paper describes a project that proposes a strategy to address the weaknesses in students abilities for abstract thinking and generic problem-solving skills. We suggest focusing on problemsolving skills outside textual programing by developing settings where descriptions of algorithmic solutions can be performed by physical and concrete constructions. It is a response to the decreasing perf...

Impairment of social functioning has been considered characteristic of schizophrenia. According to current studies, poor social functioning is a prodromal and residual feature of schizophrenia, and people with schizophrenia who have poor social functioning are more vulnerable to relapses and a poor outcome. Social cognitive problem solving (SCPS) has been hypothesized to be related to social fu...

This paper describes the design of a system that simulates a human student learning to prove tneorems in logic by interacting with a curriculum designed to teach those skills. The paper argues that sequences in this curriculum use instructional strateu, and that the student recognizgs these strategies in driving the learning process.

At this time, education in Indonesia has entered the 21st century, which requires students to have century skills, one of is problem-solving skills (PSS). PSS needed life so that can solve their problems appropriately, effectively, and efficiently. One way increase students' use varied innovative learning models, such as problem-based (PBL). This research an SLR study aims find out whether PBL ...

OBJECTIVE Health-care communication skills training may be particularly needed in the Arabian Gulf countries because of the variety of cultures within the physician and patient populations. This study describes the implementation and results of a communication skills training program for physicians in Qatar that assessed previous training, and effect of previous training on participants' course...

Background & Aims: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional intestinal system disorder defined with specific intestinal symptoms and no organic cause. Since mental problem is one of the main factors in etiology of this syndrome, studying the impact of psychological therapies on IBS seems to be useful. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of problem solving and assertivene...

Objectives: The study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of verbal self-instruction training on math problem-solving of intellectually disabled boy students in Tehran Provinces. Methods: The study was a semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. Thirty intellectually disabled boy students were selected randomly through cluster sampling method from 9th grad...