Background: The ability to solve problems is of special concern for professionals who are interested in helping others create solutions to problems that are particularly troublesome Objective: This paper evaluates the effects of an interactive problem solving training program on first-line nurse managers’ self-reported problem solving skills. Methodology: The data for this evaluation study was ...

Fluency of basic arithmetical operations is a precondition for mathematical problem solving. However, training of skills plays a minor role in contemporary mathematics instruction. We propose individualization of practice as a means to improve its efficiency, so that the time spent with training of skills is minimized. As a tool to relieve teachers from the time consuming tasks of individual di...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the effects of an explicit problem-solving skills training program using a metacomponential approach with 33 outpatients with moderate acquired brain injury, in the Hong Kong context. METHOD We compared an experimental training intervention with this explicit problem-solving approach, which taught metacomponential strategies, with a conventional cognitive training ap...

Efforts to remediate the problem-solving deficits of patients with schizophrenia have met with circumscribed success. This could be viewed as a sign of the immutability of the deficit or, alternatively, as a reflection of the inefficacy of the training techniques used. This study examined the feasibility of using problem-solving teaching techniques developed within educational psychology for re...