Students watch lectures at home, then work on problem sets in class, where the teacher can assist them one on one.
And this year, the Giants' bye week seems to have come at just the right time, after a victory, allowing them the freedom to work on problem areas without worrying about whom they are playing on Sunday.
I was fine, too, in the sense that every day I would get out of bed in the morning, walk for an hour, go to the library and work on problem sets, drink tea, eat yogurt and bananas and falafel, avoid seeing people, rent a movie, and then fall asleep watching it.
Overall, problem representation and performance, coupled with facilitative affective states, are key research areas within the large body of work on problem solving.
Also interestingly, the foundations and rationale for scenario-based design, though they are substantively cognitive, do not originate in cognitive science work on problem solving.
But even with this apparently de-structured approach the "garbage can" model was not only a descriptive tool, a number of prescriptive implications could be derived from it: work on problem re-definition; try to bring in new actors; try to establish new connections between problem-holders and solutions providers; renounce to any comprehensive treatment.
