Many of the teachers and students who have written for this blog have described projects in which students worked in teams to solve problems and produce products. Here is a recent example from a ...

Planning and problem solving constitute central facets of executive functioning and are critical in a broad range of neuropsychological evaluations. Cognitive assessment methods, including classical ...

Background: A Community health assessment (CHA) involves the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with other software to analyze health and population data and perform ...

Journal of Educational Measurement, Vol. 54, No. 1, Special Issue: Collaborative Educational Assessments (Spring 2017), pp. 12-35 (24 pages) Collaborative problem solving is a complex skill set that ...

U.S. 15-year-olds scored above average on a first-of-its-kind international assessment that measured creative problem-solving skills. However, their mean scores were significantly lower than those ...

Despite increasing recognition of the value of experiential learning and authentic assessment (Sokhanvar et al., 2021), psychology curricula have been slow to embed and evaluate impact on skills ...

Of the many skills leaders need to be effective, research consistently shows that complex problem solving is paramount. For most of us, however, solving difficult problems and selling the solutions ...

Strategic problem solving is a critical business skill, for both management and front-line workers. For management, a large portion of strategic problem solving involves predicting problems that ...

In the fast-paced world of modern business, workarounds are often hailed as the heroes of productivity. Workarounds allow teams to sidestep obstacles while continuing to move a task forward. But what ...

Approximately 500 recruitment emails were sent out for the online survey with a total of 27 responses received (~ 5% response rate). Of the individuals deciding not to respond, some of the reasons ...