It is similar to the familiarity problem: for those who are familiar with the candidate selection system, it is not confusing and inconvenient.
Writer and director Ol Parker, who was behind 2005's Imagine Me and You, a same-sex spin on the British romantic comedy, thinks it's a familiarity problem.
The third study in this issue examined how distinct problem characteristics, such as problem familiarity and problem clarity, influence student learning and achievement in PBL.
This makes familiarity a problem, although there are mitigating factors.
Of these, they identified problem difficulty, problem format, and problem relevance in addition to problem clarity and problem familiarity as input variables that determine the effectiveness of the problems.
The five problem characteristics were: (1) problem clarity, (2) problem familiarity, (3) the extent to which the problem stimulated group discussion, (4) self-study, and (5) identification of learning goals.
As input variables we used problem clarity (" The problem statements were clear to me") and problem familiarity (" I had difficulties relating the problems to what I already know").
And, edtech entrepreneurs take note: Schools want to work with teacher-founders, and startups that can show real familiarity with educational problems from the perspective of the teacher give themselves a better shot at being part of the 25percentt.
Surprisingly, the second input variable problem familiarity, which refers to students' prior knowledge about the problems, had no influence on the process variables group discussion and identification of learning goals, but a weak effect on self-study.
The results showed that problem clarity led to more group discussion, identification of learning goals, and self-study than problem familiarity.
