Quantifying Students' Scientific Problem Solving Efficiency and Effectiveness

Ronald H. Stevens, Vandana Thadani

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Abstract

Using online problem-solving tasks and machine learning tools, a measure has been developed to quantify the effectiveness and efficiency of students’ problem solving strategies. This measure can be normalized across problem solving tasks allowing the efficiency of problem solving to be measured across individuals, classes, schools and science domains. This extensible approach has relevance for helping teachers to teach, students to learn, and administrators to make intelligent, data-driven decisions via documentation of students’ problem solving progress.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)325-337
JournalTechnology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning
Volume5
Issue number4
StatePublished - 2007

Keywords

  • problem solving
  • assessment
  • artificial neural networks

Disciplines

  • Psychology

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