Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Andrew R. Sloboda, Bucknell University

added context on student perceptions orperformance, leaving the question of advantages and disadvantages of context-rich problemsopen.Thus, this study investigates student self-efficacy and performance on a problem-solving taskpresented in both context-poor and context-rich versions to see if additional context impairsstudent problem-solving effectiveness. This work builds on an earlier study [11] that did notconsider performance aspects. Student self-efficacy is assessed through self-reported ratings ofability to connect the problem to prior knowledge and confidence in ability to solve the problem.Student performance is assessed by whether the problem is solved correctly and how long ittakes to arrive at a solution.MethodologyFourth-year