2012
DOI: 10.1039/c2rp20084h
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Mental capacity and working memory in chemistry: algorithmic versus open-ended problem solving

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“…A recent study (St-Clair Thompson, Overton & Bugler, 2012) reported dissociation between the cognitive resources underlying performance on tests of mental capacity and working memory with the latter highlighted as the best predictor of problem solving and science grades. The current paper will therefore focus on studies that have assessed working memory.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…A recent study (St-Clair Thompson, Overton & Bugler, 2012) reported dissociation between the cognitive resources underlying performance on tests of mental capacity and working memory with the latter highlighted as the best predictor of problem solving and science grades. The current paper will therefore focus on studies that have assessed working memory.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The authors reported a significant correlation between verbal working memory and performance on a chemistry test in Greek pupils aged 13-15 years. A recent study examined the relationship between both storage tasks and storage and processing tasks and algorithm problem solving from a chemistry exam paper in undergraduate students (St-Clair Thompson et al, 2012). The storage and processing task employed (counting recall) but not the storage only tasks (digit and block recall) correlated with problem solving.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These observations are supported by comparing the ASR and CSR values, which show graduate students having the smallest difference between ASR and CSR (6.62%), followed by professors (7.19%), and then industry participants (13.71%). This expert behavior promotes the ability of grouping, in other words, chunking fragmented pieces of knowledge around the underlying principles, which leads to more efficient use of working (short-term) memory [21,33,39].…”
Section: Analyzing Experts' Success With Sub-problems Involving Indivmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Acting as a mental storage system, working memory preserves information while also simultaneously processing other immediate information [32]. The success of working memory in recalling and processing information is subject to attentional control [33]. Therefore, if knowledge is not retrieved and processed as chunked pieces, working memory capacity can become a barrier to problem-solving abilities.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Problem solving is an important area of research for educators. In chemistry education, problem solving has been viewed to be an important part of curriculum development and as an assessment tool and has become the subject of much research in the field of chemistry education (MeiHung, 1993;St Clair-Thompson, Overton & Bugler, 2012;Temel & Morgil, 2012). When these studies and problem solving activities performed at schools within the context of chemistry courses are examined, it is seen that problem solving activities are usually based on algorithmic and conceptual problems (Coştu, 2007;Gultepe, Yalcin Celik & Kilic, 2013;Salta & Tzougraki, 2011).…”
Section: Ek-1mentioning
confidence: 99%