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ERIC Number: EJ520708
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0047-231X
How Students Circumvent Problem-Solving Strategies that Require Greater Cognitive Complexity.
Niaz, Mansoor
Journal of College Science Teaching, v15 n5 p361-63 Mar-Apr 1996
Analyzes the great diversity in problem-solving strategies used by students in solving a chemistry problem and discusses the relationship between these variables and different cognitive variables. Concludes that students try to circumvent certain problem-solving strategies by adapting flexible and stylistic innovations that render the cognitive variables more malleable. (JRH)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, Evaluation, Higher Education, Problem Solving
Publication Type: Journal Articles
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Language: English
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