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Using Heuristic Worked Examples to Promote Solving of Reality-Based Tasks in Mathematics in Lower Secondary School
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Hänze, Martin; Leiss, Dominik – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
This study examined whether learning with heuristic worked examples can improve students' competency in solving reality-based tasks in mathematics (mathematical modeling competency). We randomly assigned 134 students in Grade 5 and 180 students in Grade 7 to one of three conditions: control condition (students worked on reality-based tasks),…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Competence, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction
The Use of Heuristic Strategies in Modelling Activities
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Stender, Peter – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2018
For students working on realistic complex modelling problems as autonomously as possible the support by a tutor is indispensable for the students. However, how this support can be realised is still a question that has not been sufficiently answered. Based on prior research, it turned out that teacher interventions based on heuristic strategies…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Heuristics
Scaffolding in Complex Modelling Situations
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Stender, Peter; Kaiser, Gabriele – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
The implementation of teacher-independent realistic modelling processes is an ambitious educational activity with many unsolved problems so far. Amongst others, there hardly exists any empirical knowledge about efficient ways of possible teacher support with students' activities, which should be mainly independent from the teacher. The research…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Preservice Teachers, Tutors, Mathematics Instruction
Heuristic Literacy Development and Its Relation to Mathematical Achievements of Middle School Students
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Koichu, Boris; Berman, Abraham; Moore, Michael – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2007
The relationships between heuristic literacy development and mathematical achievements of middle school students were explored during a 5-month classroom experiment in two 8th grade classes (N = 37). By heuristic literacy we refer to an individual's capacity to use heuristic vocabulary in problem-solving discourse and to approach scholastic…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Education, Heuristics, Aptitude Tests
Use of the Competing-Hypotheses Heuristic to Reduce "Pseudodiagnosticity."
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Wolf, Fredric M. And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1988
The efficacy of an educational intervention in teaching medical students to select optimal diagnostic data consistent with the competing-hypotheses heuristic and Bayes' theorem when solving clinical problems was examined. The results suggest that some problem-solving skills can be enhanced or learned independent of the acquisition of content…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Competition, Decision Making
Navigating Currents and Charting Directions. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (31st, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, June 28-July 1, 2008). Volumes 1 and 2
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Goos, Merrilyn, Ed.; Brown, Ray, Ed.; Makar, Katie, Ed. – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2008
This document presents the proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA). The theme of this conference is "Navigating Currents and Charting Directions." The theme reminds us that, although we are constantly pushed to account for the quality and impact of our research, we…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Educational Development, Practicums