The Relevance of Subjective Emotional Components of Intelligence for Complex Problem SolvingAbstract: Traditional components of intelligence (e.g., processing capacity) predict behavior in conventional problem-solving tasks, whereas subjective, emotional ...
Effects of Test Context on Students' Achievements in Analytical Problem Solving and MathematicsResults from PISA 2003 for Germany show considerable differences between students' comparably high problem-solving competence and their average mathematical ...
Social, personal, methodological or professional: which competencies apply when solving optimization tasks?Abstract. In some of the recent management literature the impression is generated that social competence is not only an addition to job-specific ...
Design problem-solving: What improves the quality of solutions when a question technique is used?Abstract. Two experimental studies were conducted to examine the effects of different conditions of the solution-improving effect of a question-answering ...
Abstract. The study examines (a) whether gestational age relates to parental scaffolding (SCA), when controlling for child cognitive development, parenting stress, and socioeconomic status, and (b) how SCA links to parent–child problem-solving ...
Moaning or exploration of solutions? A sequential examination of interaction processes in work groups when completing optimization tasksAbstract. Group discussions on managing optimization tasks are not only used to explore solutions in enterprises, they ...
Abstract. Successful goal striving hinges on the selection of instrumental means. The current research investigates individual differences in self-awareness as a predictor for means instrumentality. This effect should be mediated by ...
Abstract: In our study, we integrated the vary-one-thing-at-a-time (VOTAT) strategy within epistemic activities in knowledge-lean problem-solving. VOTAT, altering a single variable while keeping others constant, was examined through a dual approach: an ...
Abstract. Many case studies show that unstructured decision-making processes in teams are contributing factors to accidents. In situations without any preconfigured solutions, airlines have developed decision models. In our article, we ...
Abstract: The study investigated the validation of a rating scale to measure cognitive load in science teacher education. The rating scale was used to measure three types of cognitive load in a new learning context ...