Training in Components of Problem-Solving Competence: An Experimental Study of Aspects of the Cognitive Potential Exploitation Hypothesis
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Competence Assessment in Education: Research, Models and Instruments. Hrsg. / Detlev Leutner; Jens Fleischer; Juliane Grünkorn; Eckard Klieme. Cham: Springer Nature AG, 2017. S. 315-331 (Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment).
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T1 - Training in Components of Problem-Solving Competence
T2 - An Experimental Study of Aspects of the Cognitive Potential Exploitation Hypothesis
AU - Buchwald, Florian
AU - Fleischer, Jens
AU - Rumann, Stefan
AU - Wirth, Joachim
AU - Leutner, Detlev
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017, Springer International Publishing AG.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - In this chapter, two studies are presented that investigate aspects of the cognitive potential exploitation hypothesis. This hypothesis states that students in Germany have cognitive potentials they do not use when solving subject-specific problems but that they do use when solving cross-curricular problems. This theory has been used to explain how students in Germany achieved relatively well on cross-curricular problem solving but relatively weakly on mathematical problem solving in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003. Our main research question in this chapter is: Can specific aspects of cross-curricular problem-solving competence (that is, conditional knowledge, procedural knowledge, and planning skills) be taught, and if so, would training in this area also transfer to mathematical problem solving? We investigated this question in a computer-based training experiment and a field-experimental training study. The results showed only limited effects in the laboratory experiment, although an interaction effect of treatment and prior problem-solving competence in the field-experiment indicated positive effects of training as well as a transfer to mathematical problem-solving for low-achieving problem-solvers. The results are discussed from a theoretical and a pedagogical perspective.
AB - In this chapter, two studies are presented that investigate aspects of the cognitive potential exploitation hypothesis. This hypothesis states that students in Germany have cognitive potentials they do not use when solving subject-specific problems but that they do use when solving cross-curricular problems. This theory has been used to explain how students in Germany achieved relatively well on cross-curricular problem solving but relatively weakly on mathematical problem solving in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003. Our main research question in this chapter is: Can specific aspects of cross-curricular problem-solving competence (that is, conditional knowledge, procedural knowledge, and planning skills) be taught, and if so, would training in this area also transfer to mathematical problem solving? We investigated this question in a computer-based training experiment and a field-experimental training study. The results showed only limited effects in the laboratory experiment, although an interaction effect of treatment and prior problem-solving competence in the field-experiment indicated positive effects of training as well as a transfer to mathematical problem-solving for low-achieving problem-solvers. The results are discussed from a theoretical and a pedagogical perspective.
KW - Analytical problem solving
KW - Mathematical problem solving
KW - Training
KW - Transfer
KW - Educational science
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-50030-0_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-50030-0_19
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85077474729
SN - 978-3-319-50028-7
SN - 978-3-319-84301-8
T3 - Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment
SP - 315
EP - 331
BT - Competence Assessment in Education
A2 - Leutner, Detlev
A2 - Fleischer, Jens
A2 - Grünkorn, Juliane
A2 - Klieme, Eckard
PB - Springer Nature AG
CY - Cham
ER -