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Wüstenberg, Sascha; Stadler, Matthias; Hautamäki, Jarkko; Greiff, Samuel – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2014
Education in the twenty-first century must prepare students to meet the challenges of a dynamic and interconnected world. However, assessment of students' skills tends to focus primarily on static tasks. Therefore, it is not known whether knowledge about successful strategies displayed on static tasks can be transferred to interactive and dynamic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Learning Strategies, Science Process Skills
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Hyytinen, Heidi; Holma, Katariina; Toom, Auli; Shavelson, Richard J.; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari – Frontline Learning Research, 2014
The study utilized a multi-method approach to explore the connection between critical thinking and epistemological beliefs in a specific problem-solving situation. Data drawn from a sample of ten third-year bioscience students were collected using a combination of a cognitive lab and a performance task from the Collegiate Learning Assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Biological Sciences, Student Attitudes
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Leppavirta, J.; Kettunen, H.; Sihvola, A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
Complex multistep problem exercises are one way to enhance engineering students' learning of electromagnetics (EM). This study investigates whether exposure to complex problem exercises during an introductory EM course improves students' conceptual and procedural knowledge. The performance in complex problem exercises is compared to prior success…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Electromechanical Technology
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Makinen, Jarkko; Petersson, Gunilla; Nurmi, Raija; Lonka, Kirsti – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2007
The aim of the study was to examine do health care students, who study at different programs, value similar expert qualities. To investigate this issue, a questionnaire was administered among health care students in a Finnish polytechnic (two cohorts, total n = 466), consisting of a scale for rating the importance of different expert qualities.…
Descriptors: Expertise, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes