Personality characteristics and their type of control focus affected problem solving skill (p<0.05).

* Students with stronger reading or math skills tend to be better at collaborative problem solving because managing and interpreting information, and the ability to reason, are required to solve problems.

On the basis of results, it was concluded that the students who received treatment, performed better than the students of control group in problem solving ability tests and in the achievement test and were better in their critical thinking skills (understanding, analyzing, evaluation and synthesis).

Collaborative problem solving refers to an individual's skills in a situation in which they take part in problem solving with virtual team members on a computer.

In analytical problem solving, the problem solver needs to structure, represent, and integrate information to construct a problem solution (Simon, 1975).

Germain-Williams writes for caring and concerned adults who would like to help a child develop problem solving thinking and become adept at the use of problem solving strategies.

The program which was developed based on the previous programs by Sror in 2011 that suits the Arabic culture, consisted of introduction, skills of thinking and problem solving in addition to 75 applicable activities to train the students.

Now in a newly updated fourteenth edition, "Problem Solving Cases In Microsoft Access and Excel" is the collaborative project of Ellen F.

Key words: Mathematical Problem Solving, Mathematics Education, Experienced teachers

"Creative Problem Solving: Students' Skills in Tackling Real Life Problems" is the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) first assessment of problem solving skills and first attempt to measure the creative skills that today's economy demands from its workers.

Creative Problem Solving for Managers: Developing Skills for Decision Making and Innovation, 4th Edition

The goal of this study was to examine two specific forms of guided discovery, testing whether conceptual instruction should precede or follow exploratory problem solving. In both cases, the problem solving is considered exploratory because children have not been told how to solve the problems; rather, children are expected to generate or apply their own problem solving procedures.

In a new study, Jennifer Wiley and Andrew Jarosz of the University of Illinois at Chicago have explored the role of working memory capacity in both mathematical and creative problem solving.

In those with preceding events, maybe we need to identify more beforehand those who have poorer problem solving and teach them some problem-solving skills," Mr.