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Dewolf, Tinne; Van Dooren, Wim; Ev Cimen, Emre; Verschaffel, Lieven – Journal of Experimental Education, 2014
The present research investigated whether an illustration and/or a warning could help students to (a) build a situational model of the problem situation and (b) solve problematic word problems (P-items) that require realistic thinking more realistically. In 2 similar studies conducted in Turkey and Belgium, the authors presented 10- to 11-year-old…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics), Models, Problem Solving
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Patrick, Helen; Ryan, Allison M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2008
In this article, the authors investigated the teacher practices that middle school students attend to when appraising their classroom's mastery goal structure. After students rated each item on the mastery goal structure scale, they wrote what their teacher did or said that led them to make that choice. Students' responses to the open-ended…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Educational Practices, Investigations, Questionnaires