Working memory capacity, disembedding ability and problem solving techniques among college students in physics

• Main Author: Vallente, Amancia Ragandac
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2004
• Subjects: Problem solving in adolescence; Human information processing > Physiological aspects. Short-term memory > Physiological aspects; Physics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/41; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_doctoral/article/1040/viewcontent/CDTG003706_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This qualitative study describes the problem solving techniques used by students of different levels of working memory capacity and disembedding ability in solving two forms of problems in Mechanics: 1) conventional question with the information entirely as a text and 2) given data are presented alm...