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Performance Task 3 Factors Affecting Problem Solving

The document discusses factors that affect creative problem solving abilities in a blended learning environment. It outlines the creative problem solving (CPS) process developed over 60 years, which includes understanding challenges, generating ideas, preparing for action, and planning approaches. It also discusses five factors in blended learning: learning activities, resources, feedback, interaction, and evaluation. The research findings suggest implementing CPS by motivating students, providing understanding resources, encouraging idea generation and feedback, and using online tools to facilitate knowledge sharing and presenting real-world problems. The study proposes nine factors as a framework for designing blended learning to enhance creative problem solving performance.

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Performance Task 3 Factors Affecting Problem Solving

The document discusses factors that affect creative problem solving abilities in a blended learning environment. It outlines the creative problem solving (CPS) process developed over 60 years, which includes understanding challenges, generating ideas, preparing for action, and planning approaches. It also discusses five factors in blended learning: learning activities, resources, feedback, interaction, and evaluation. The research findings suggest implementing CPS by motivating students, providing understanding resources, encouraging idea generation and feedback, and using online tools to facilitate knowledge sharing and presenting real-world problems. The study proposes nine factors as a framework for designing blended learning to enhance creative problem solving performance.

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PERFORMANCE TASK 2

BSEd-Math3A
GROUP 5
Members: Daryl Delos Santos
Maricor Grijalvo
Regine Hufancia

a) assertions about the factors affecting problem solving


b) research findings on implementing problem solving in the classroom

TITLE OF ARTICLE: Factors affecting creative problem solving abilities in blended-learning environment

Creative problem solving (CPS) is one of the interesting problem solving types that should be
integrated in teaching. Furthermore, CPS which was developed over 50 years ago could still be applied in the present
education because of modification into the situation. It is promoted by creative problem solving (CPS) process that
has been refined for more than 60 years by many researchers. Alex Osborn (1957) first presented seven steps in CPS
process, namely orientation, preparation, analysis, hypothesis, incubation, synthesis, and verification. The process
went through several changes and as for the current model, Isaksen, Treffinger, and Firestien (1982) proposed CPS
V6.1 which includes 4 main components and 8 detailed steps. This version has been applied and tested in education
contexts and has been demonstrated in traditional classroom, blended, and online learning contexts.

Treffinger et al. (2003) proposed the CPS version 6.1—the current iteration of the CPS process—which included 4
main steps and 8 minor steps as follow:
1) understanding the challenge: constructing opportunities, exploring data, and framing problems
2) generating ideas: generating ideas
3) preparing for action: developing solutions and building acceptance and
4) planning your approach: appraising tasks and designing process.

While CPS process is one important approach to create various solutions for solving different problems, the online
tools play another critical role in instruction because of technology revolution. Many instructors have applied online
tools in their classroom. For instance, a discussion board was used to enhance the interaction between
learners and instructors anywhere anytime. Although online tools might increase learning performance in classroom,
instructors should manage and organize these tools appropriately for improving learners’ skills.

a) assertions about the factors affecting problem solving

As can be seen the CPS process that affected creative problem solving performance in blended learning context
consisted of

1) understanding the challenge


2) generating ideas
3) preparing for action
4) planning your approach
5) learning activities
6) learning resources
7) feedback
8) interaction
9) evaluation

Of the nine factors, the first four are CPS process whereas the rest belongs to blended learning. To prove whether
these indicators could increase creative problem solving performance, instructors should utilize an assessment tool
for evaluating creative problem solving performance in blended learning context.
b) research findings on implementing problem solving in the classroom

It is worth noting that the body of literature in this study has given us useful recommendations for implementing CPS
in classroom.

In the Understanding the Challenge step, instructors might organize activities by making their
students believe in their creative abilities and motivate students to construct the creative ideas. Moreover,
instructors should give additional resources for understanding problems, finding out the goals of solving problem,
searching out the relevant information. Meanwhile, generating ideas could be improved by group discussion,
brainstorming, reflective thinking, and concept map construction for the novel ideas. Group discussion and
brainstorming can be achieved through online tools such as a chat room, discussion board, e-mail or forum. Given
these various and unusual ideas for generating ideas, instructors should give their learners more time to create
different ideas. In the preparing for action step, the instructors could give their learners a chance to examine,
improve, and validate ideas into the good solution. Afterwards, the instructors should encourage the learners to
examine means to make the selected creative ideas effectively. In the planning your approach step, the instructors
might assign the learners to review and make an overall assessment of the creative solutions, and apply the creative
solution practically. According to an assessment of the creative solutions in the planning you approach stage, the
instructors could apply the online tools such as a discussion board, or polling program for showing ideas, writing the
comments, and selecting the quality solution by examining the benefit of ideas or a wide range of implication of the
ideas. In addition, the self-assessment and comparing with the experts might increase the creative solution ideas
through giving feedback to learners after they had released their ideas.

The creative problem solving performance might be improved by examining and generating ideas through
knowledge sharing which could be organized by online tools such as a discussion board, chat room, voting, or
electronic mail. In addition, encouragement and providing time for thinking were two factors that could enhance
creative problem solving performance. Although creative problem solving performance could be increased by CPS
process, context organization in learning was an important element because both online environment and classroom
affected probably creative problem solving performance through tutorials, exercises, assignments, and different
examples which should be the actual problem that learners experience in daily life. It might be difficult to present
the actual problems or cases a classroom; thus, instructors may opt for virtual world presentation.

The study revealed that 1) understanding the challenges, 2) generating ideas, 3) preparing for action, 4) planning
own approach were main factors in creative problem solving process; and 1) learning activities, 2) learning resources,
3) feedback, 4) learning interaction, and 5) evaluation were five main factors in blended learning environment. Nine
factors were proposed as a framework to design blended learning to enhance creative problem solving performance.

REFERENCE
 Sophonhiranrak, Samoekan (2015, February 12) Factors Affecting Creative Problem Solving in the Blended
Learning Environment: A Review of the Literature
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277651796_Factors_Affecting_Creative_Problem_Solving_in_the
_Blended_Learning_Environment_A_Review_of_the_Literature

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