In their paper "Teaching Science Problem Solving: An Overview of Experimental Work" (Journal of Research in Science Teaching2001,38, 442-468), Taconis, Ferguson-Hessler, and Broekkamp present a meta-analysis of results from 40 quantitative studies of problem solving and identify strategies that proved to be effective in developing problem-solving abilities in science students.
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Lyle, Kenneth S.; Robinson, William R. J. Chem. Educ.2001 78 1162.
Keywords
CER Problem Solving; CER Quantitative Methods; Problem-Based Learning
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