Metacognitive abilities involved in Physics problem solving: investigating expertise students
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https://doi.org/10.18542/amazrecm.v14i29.5372Keywords:
Problem solving, experts, Physics, metacognitive abilities.Abstract
The present study has as objective identifying the way how physics’ students who are experts in problem solving structure their thoughts and reach to their metacognitive abilities. For that, students from a Physics course who were pointed out by their teachers were selected as good at problem solving. Based on that identification they were submitted to sections of clinical interviewing, where they solved three physics problems and by mean of the protocol of out loud thinking, it was possible to obtain data and analyse the way how their thoughts were organized in the moment that they solved the challenges. As a cut off the study, the analyse was limited in terms of metacognitive abilities, specifically in terms of the elements: planning, monitoring and evaluation. The results point to the presence of these elements and are promising in terms of providing subsidies for the physics teacher’s practice.References
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