Solving problems is considered as a very important learning activity in formal educational settings concerning all grades of education from primary to tertiary education. Students’ engagement in problem solving activities helps them to acquire not only knowledge and skills on a subject domain but also useful attitudes such as thinking, flexibility, creativity, and productivity which are very im...

The paper addresses a gap in the educational curriculum for engineers by proposing a new course that aims at getting engineering students to think about how to frame and solve unstructured problems. The idea is to increase the student’s mathematical awareness and problem-solving skills by discussing a variety of puzzles. The paper makes an argument that this approach – called Puzzle-Based Learn...

background: in-service educational courses have made the organization employees more capable of solving problems, making decisions and analyzing the job. educational programs should be based on educational needs. so aim of present research was to determinate educational need assessments of employees affiliated to dezful university of medical sciences regarding in-service educational courses in ...

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is often called a motor learning deficit. The question addressed in this paper is whether improvement of motor skills is just a matter of mere practice. Without any kind of intervention, children with DCD do not improve their motor skills generally, whereas they do improve after task-oriented intervention. Merely offering children the opportunity to pra...

Coached problem solving is known to be e ective for teaching cognitive skills. Simple forms of coached problem solving are used in many ITS. This paper rst considers how university physics can be taught via coached problem solving. It then discusses how coached problem solving can be extended to support two other forms of learning: conceptual learning and meta learning.