The Productive Failure (PF) approach prompts students to attempt to solve a problem prior to instruction – at which point they typically fail. Yet, research on PF shows that students who are involved ...

In a testament to America’s best schools, many of them in the Bay Area, U.S. students scored slightly above average in 2012 international tests in problem solving — and performed significantly better ...

Compared with their peers in developed nations, American 15-year olds are slightly above average problem solvers, but not as good as students from Asian nations who regularly shellac them in math, ...

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Samuel Greiff receives funding from BMBF (Germany), European Union, FNR (Luxembourg), and OECD. He has been involved in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as an external advisor ...

U.S. 15-year-olds scored above average on a first-of-its-kind international assessment that measured creative problem-solving skills. However, their mean scores were significantly lower than those ...