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Direct linkEibensteiner, Janice L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Successful science students have mastered their field of study by being able to apply their learned knowledge and problem solving skills on tests. Problem solving skills must be used to figure out the answer to many classes of questions. What this study is trying to determine is how students solve complex science problems in an academic setting in…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Two Year Colleges
Download full textWakefield, John F. – 1991
The hypothesis of positive skew in distributions of response to creative thinking tasks was studied. Data were obtained from examinees' responses to problem-solving tasks in three published studies of creative thinking. Subjects included 23 fifth graders (12 females and 11 males), 29 high school students (10 females and 19 males), and 47 female…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Creative Thinking
