The development and growth of human life may require the individual’s ability to solve real life problems. This ability may be ambiguous when it comes to solving difficult and complex problems due to its neglection by traditional problem-solving research in educational psychology. Thinking skills and problem solving ability are very helpful to instruct learners how to solve complex problems and make decisions in the classroom. This study aimed to describe how learners can solve problems through directed thinking in understanding a literary text. Using a quasi-experiment, this study adapts a sample which consists of twenty subjects at Higher College of Teachers of Laghouat who are assigned into two groups for giving one group more treatment than the other. The results revealed that thinking skills of students are effective as they serve as part of the pedagogical interest of most of the subjects who received the treatment methodology in class; also, they pursued more enthusiasm and positive attitudes towards improving their high order thinking skills to solve problems.
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A Mixed Methods Study on Maintaining Problem Solving through Directed Thinking: Implementation and Outcome
Dr. Maroua Rogti
Department of English, Higher College of Teachers, Laghouat, Algeria
Abstract
The development and growth of human life may require the individual’s ability to solve real life problems. This ability may be ambiguous when it comes to solving difficult and complex problems due to its neglection by traditional problem-solving research in educational psychology. Thinking skills and problem solving ability are very helpful to instruct learners how to solve complex problems and make decisions in the classroom. This study aimed to describe how learners can solve problems through directed thinking in understanding a literary text. Using a quasi-experiment, this study adapts a sample which consists of twenty subjects at Higher College of Teachers of Laghouat who are assigned into two groups for giving one group more treatment than the other. The results revealed that thinking skills of students are effective as they serve as part of the pedagogical interest of most of the subjects who received the treatment methodology in class; also, they pursued more enthusiasm and positive attitudes towards improving their high order thinking skills to solve problems.
Keywords: Thinking and Cognition, Human Consciousness, Problem Solving Skills, EFL Learners, Educational Psychology
Introduction
In cognitive psychology, researchers have identified problem solving models and types of thinking in how to solve problems and make decisions. These are referred to as interrelated mental capacities in which individuals tempt to assess data or evaluate a particular situation. In teaching and learning, addressing and solving problems can be associated with thinking skills and ability to solve problems from the perspective of educational psychology. This sub-field of psychology studies human behavior in educational and learning settings and tempts to assess issues which are related to human behavior through mental processes. For, teaching and learning require high level of thinking skills for helping learners be aware of addressing problems through creative and critical thinking skills regarding learning in the classroom. Teachers and learners may need a potential for addressing problems in teaching and learning, these problems may be associated with thinking skills and problem solving skills which refer to the ability to interpret and evaluate a certain input, information, or argument.
Thinking skills refer to the ability to think and reason reflectively through a self-conscious process using a judgment based on particular criteria to address problems and interpret and assess knowledge. In teaching and learning, learners need to be provided with the necessary skills to understand what is going in the world such as engaging in critical dialogues and philosophi
In-Text Citation: (Rogti, 2020)
To Cite this Article: Rogti, M. (2020). A Mixed Methods Study on Maintaining Problem Solving through Directed Thinking: Implementation and Outcome. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 9(1), 346–359.
Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s)
Published by Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (www.hrmars.com)
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
