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The Pennsylvania State UniversityThe Graduate SchoolCollege of EducationTHE RELATIONSHIP BETWEENWELL- structured AND ILL-STRUCTUREDPROBLEM SOLVING IN MULTIMEDIA SIMULATIONA Thesis inInstructional SystemsbyNamsoo Shin HongSubmitted in Partial Fulfillmentof the Requirementsfor the Degree ofDoctor of PhilosophyAugust 1998iiiABSTRACTProblem solving, especially complicated ill- structured problem solving, has been amajor concern in education. Research of the past decade provides qualitative ways ofviewing the solving processes of ill- structured problems. Sinnott, Voss & Post, andJonassen suggested that ill- structured problem solving has to support new, more qualitative,components than those for solving WELL-STRUCTURED study set forth to test the theory that the problem-solving skills used for WELL-STRUCTURED problems are necessary but not sufficient for solving ill- structured problems inthe context of an open-ended, multimedia problem-solving environment.

The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School College of Education THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WELL-STRUCTURED AND ILL-STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVING IN MULTIMEDIA SIMULATION

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