Many of the teachers and students who have written for this blog have described projects in which students worked in teams to solve problems and produce products. Here is a recent example from a ...

Multiple-choice exams measuring the breadth of students’ content knowledge have hardly disappeared. But the creators of a leading international exam, the U.S. government agency behind “the nation’s ...

Planning and problem solving constitute central facets of executive functioning and are critical in a broad range of neuropsychological evaluations. Cognitive assessment methods, including classical ...

Strategic problem solving is a critical business skill, for both management and front-line workers. For management, a large portion of strategic problem solving involves predicting problems that ...

After more than 24 years of coaching, I've noticed that teams and organizations still use traditional problem-solving techniques despite these being either obsolete or ineffective. For example, ...

Are you stuck with workplace problems that you can't solve? Make your problem front and center. When you say that you're "a firefighter," you don't mean the firefighter who runs into buildings with ...

The Productive Failure (PF) approach prompts students to attempt to solve a problem prior to instruction – at which point they typically fail. Yet, research on PF shows that students who are involved ...

The nexus between peacebuilding and development is widely acknowledged, and yet the two fields continue to operate differently in diagnosing destructive intergroup conflicts, as demonstrated by ...

Problem-solving is a key transferable skill, developing the use of strategic planning, logic, curiosity, an exploratory mindset and creativity across many disciplines. Problem-solving tasks can take ...

Problems occur at every level in business. The question is what do you do to encourage breakthrough solutions? Let’s start with a simple motivational framework to focus people on problem solving.