The purpose of this study was to investigate the problem solving process of elementary students as they attempted to find a solution about a technological problem. The students participating in this study were three fifth-grade students from an elemen...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the problem solving process of elementary students as they attempted to find a solution about a technological problem. The students participating in this study were three fifth-grade students from an elementary school in Cheong-lu city. Technological problem solving task was used. They were provided with design brief which they designed and made a technological solution. The subiects were thinking aloud during their problem solving work. The natural talks and acts of the subiects were videotaped for subsequent analysis. Action were coded as using coding scheme an empirically derived grounded in 7heoretical models. Results showed as followed; Process exhibited in each of the case studies was not the same as that described in published models for the design or problem-solving process. And subject's problem-solving process was different. Subiects who developed their ideas using three-dimensional modelling acts were successfully problem solving than the others who didn't using it. They spent many times in generating ideas step. The act of modelling stimulated the generation of their ideas, the specify their ideas, and the evaluation possible ideas.