Effects of domain-specific knowledge on social sciences problem-solving performance.

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Yeung Kam-chuen Anthony. / Title also in Chinese. / Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Bibliography: leaves 137-144. / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.ii / ABSTRACT --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.viii / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.xiii / CHAPTER / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Context of the study problem --- p.1 / Statement of the Problem --- p.3 / Significance of the Study --- p.4 / Chapter 2. --- Review of Literature --- p.8 / From Concept Formation to Problem Solving --- p.8 / About Problem Solving --- p.12 / Information-processing Theory of Human Problem Solving --- p.16 / The Nature of Social Science Problems --- p.28 / Domain-specific Knowledge in Social Science Problem Solving --- p.31 / Social Science Problem Solving Strategies --- p.38 / Chapter 3. --- The Social Science Problem-solving Model --- p.40 / Early Development of the Social Science Problem-solving Model --- p.40 / The Problem-solving- reasoning Model --- p.41 / Chapter 4. --- Research Design --- p.48 / Statement of Hypotheses --- p.48 / Operational Definitions of Variables --- p.52 / Subjects --- p.57 / Instruments --- p.62 / Procedures --- p.71 / Chapter 5. --- Results and Discussion --- p.78 / Statistical Analysis of Data --- p.79 / Qualitative Analysis of Data --- p.108 / Discussion --- p.119 / Chapter 6. --- Conclusions and Recommendations --- p.130 / Conclusions --- p.130 / Implications --- p.132 / Limitations --- p.135 / Recommendations --- p.136 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.137 / APPENDIX / Chapter 1. --- The Knowledge Test --- p.145 / Chapter 2. --- "The ""Locating a Ball Pen Factory"" Problem" --- p.150 / Chapter 3. --- "The ""Locating an Oil Refinery"" Problem" --- p.153

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Social sciences--Study and teaching

Problem solving

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_318644
Date	January 1990
Contributors	Yeung, Kam-chuen Anthony., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Education.
Publisher	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Source Sets	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Text, bibliography
Format	print, xiv, 154 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Rights	Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)