The United States is not scored on reading skills because reading is evaluated only in very backward countries where the reading skills are so poor that it is impossible to measure problem solving competencies.
The Social Problem-Solving Inventory-Revised (SPSI-R) which is designed by D'Zurilla, was used for measuring problem solving skills.
Adolescents and their caregivers reported on this 60-item scale of perceived family functioning using the FAD, which is comprised of 7 scales that measure problem solving, communication, roles, affective responsiveness, affective involvement, behavior control, and general functioning.
In addition, several recently developed assessments are devoted at least in part to specifically measuring problem solving (i.e., diagnostic question clusters [DQC]; Parker et al., 2012), critical thinking (Bissell and Lemons, 2006), and basic process skills (Gormally et al., 2012).
They found that the video game players showed an improvement in measures of problem solving, spatial skill and persistence, whereas the brain training users showed no improvements.
Though numerous measures of problem solving skills in mathematics have been presented in the literature, procedures used to evaluate the construct validity of these measures are often incomplete.
Experiment 1 with N=200 students implemented a between-subjects design, Experiment 2 with N=28 young adults a within-subjects design with 10 repeated measures on problem solving.
29 This model is supported by data showing that cognitively diverse teams outperform less diverse teams on measures of problem solving.
To provide a more substantive curriculum evaluation based on hard learning outcomes our future work will focus on more direct and long term measures of the student performance, and developing and measuring the problem solving and decision making skills which are necessary in a competent EBM practitioner.
We measure the mindset of children before and after interacting with the peer-like robot, in addition to measuring their problem solving behavior when faced with a challenging puzzle.
