Revealing students' thinking process in problem-posing exercises: Analysis of first sentence selection

Abstract

We have developed a computer-based learning environment called MONSAKUN to realize learning by problem-posing, where students select and arrange several sentence cards to pose arithmetical word problems. We call this type of problem-posing "sentence integration". As the next step of MONSAKUN development, we have been analyzing the sentence selection process which is considered to reflect students' thinking process. In the first step of analysis, we focused on the first sentence card selected in the process of posing a problem. We found that the selection changed based on different type of approach, type of story and students' exercise experience. This result is an important step towards building elaborate process model of problem-posing and adaptive support of the process.