Mid-way through the academic year, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday decided to do away with the Problem Solving Assessment (PSA) test from the 2015-2016 academic year. The ...

Problem-solving is a key transferable skill, developing the use of strategic planning, logic, curiosity, an exploratory mindset and creativity across many disciplines. Problem-solving tasks can take ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is planning to initiate a ‘Problem Solving Assessment’ (CBSEPSA ) for students of classes IX and XI from the second term of the 2012-13 session.

Students of classes IX and XI are a worried lot. For, it is the first academic year when the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will hold Problem Solving Assessment (PSA) exam in the second ...

Journal of Educational Measurement, Vol. 54, No. 1, Special Issue: Collaborative Educational Assessments (Spring 2017), pp. 12-35 (24 pages) Collaborative problem solving is a complex skill set that ...

In a move that will bring great relief to class IX CBSE students, the board has decided to drop the Problem Solving Assessment (PSA) in classes IX and XI. Instead, the students will appear for an ...

Despite increasing recognition of the value of experiential learning and authentic assessment (Sokhanvar et al., 2021), psychology curricula have been slow to embed and evaluate impact on skills ...

Planning and problem solving constitute central facets of executive functioning and are critical in a broad range of neuropsychological evaluations. Cognitive assessment methods, including classical ...

Many of the teachers and students who have written for this blog have described projects in which students worked in teams to solve problems and produce products. Here is a recent example from a ...