dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Bos, Rogier | |
dc.contributor.author | Lemmink, R.M.A.Z. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-12T13:55:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-12T13:55:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/33363 | |
dc.description.abstract | The present study investigated if students change their use of heuristics and help-seeking behavior during a two-lesson course. This course was designed to give students the opportunity to solve mathematical problems with help use through heuristic trees and a help-seeking model. During the course students worked on mathematical problems after they watched a video about the desired behavior in an online learning platform. Students can ask for pre-programmed help: hints and heuristics are available for each of the usual phases of problem solving. While working on a problem students made use of a model that supported them to seek help in a right way.
We analyzed student questionnaires, working sheets for the help-seeking model, and student’s use of hints and results on the problems. The results are as follows: students worked with concentration and enthusiasm; students were seeking more digital help when the difficulty of the problems increased; the specific hints were clear to students; the occurrence of help-abuse is negligible; at least 21% and a maximum of 71% of the students reported they have changed their approach to mathematical problem solving. Despite our efforts to motivate students to reflect and generalize their results after solving a problem, they did not. Unfortunately our attempts to measure compression of knowledge did not succeed. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 1154880 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Improving Help-Seeking Behavior for Online Mathematical Problem-Solving Lessons | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | hints, heuristics, heuristic trees, help-seeking, help-seeking model, problem-solving, self-regulation, online learning platform, compression | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Science Education and Communication | |