Generic Problem Solving Inquiry Model (Hungerford, 1975) as the instructional model for the treatment groups

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

The study adopted the "Generic Problem Solving Inquiry Model developed by Hungerford (1975)" as the instructional model for the PF and PM treatment groups. The article states that "This instructional model outlines the typical steps one goes through in the scientific solution of a problem" and that it "identified seventeen sequential students' behaviours and twenty-one corresponding teacher behaviours groups into a six-stage model of problem solving". The PF group additionally received feedback-correctives focused on reinforcing students' thinking and correcting technical errors.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Trained teachers using lesson plans reflecting the instructional pattern mapped out for each treatment group

Constraints

• Students in the PC control group were not exposed to the problem-solving model and were taught by the conventional method involving tasks without set procedures

Target Learners

• SS II senior secondary chemistry students in urban and rural schools

Learning Goals

• Chemistry cognitive achievement and retention in separation techniques, hardness in water, cracking alkanes to produce alkenes, and fractional distillation of crude oil

Claims

• Pf Pm Pc Hierarchical Achievement Order Chemistry [+M]
• Pf Highest Retention Then Pm Then Pc [+M]

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Key Sources

• Jacobson Barineka Nbina & Obomanu, B. Joseph. (2011). Assessment of the Effects of Problem Solving Instructional Strategies On Students' Achievement and Retention in Chemistry With Respect to Location in Rivers State. World Journal of Education, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.5430/wje.v1n2p74

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title	Generic Problem Solving Inquiry Model (Hungerford, 1975) as the instructional model for the treatment groups
description	The study adopted the "Generic Problem Solving Inquiry Model developed by Hungerford (1975)" as the instructional model for the PF and PM treatment groups.
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