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Gulacar, Ozcan; Tan, Alexandra; Cox, Charles T., Jr.; Bloomquist, Jennifer; Jimmy, Okechukwu; Cao, Nguyen – Education Sciences, 2019
To gauge the variability in expert problem-solving strategies for stoichiometry problems, a set of experts in different career tracks were studied with the cohort including 17 graduate students in chemistry, three college chemistry instructors, and seven college graduates working in the industry. The goal of the study was to determine whether…
Descriptors: Expertise, Problem Solving, Stoichiometry, Chemistry
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Marai, Leo; Haihuie, Samuel; Kavanamur, David – Higher Education Policy, 2005
Despite political rhetoric to the contrary, higher education (HE) in Papua New Guinea remains heavily Westernized, resulting in an alienation of HE, and its students, from the development needs of the country. Taking the discipline of psychology as an example, indigenization is not a complete solution to this alienation, since many of the issues…
Descriptors: Psychology, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Alienation
Ackerman, Philip L. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
This report reviews a theoretically inspired empirical investigation of individual differences in knowledge, abilities, and nonability traits as part of an ongoing effort to better understand adult intellectual development and to develop more accurate measures of adult intelligence. Twenty Knowledge Scales were constructed, drawing on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Adult Development, Intellectual Development, Individual Differences