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 pose arithmetical word problems by selecting and arranging several sentence cards. As the next step of MONSAKUN development, we analyze the sentence selection process which is considered to reflect students' thinking process. In the first step of analysis, we focused on first sentence selection. We found that the selection approach changed based on different 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.