RUME 14 (Volume 4)
2011
Portland, Oregon
USING THINK ALOUDS TO REMOVE BOTTLENECKS IN MATHEMATICS
Page: 28
Think alouds are a research tool originally developed by cognitive psychologists for the purpose of studying how people solve problems. The basic idea being that if a subject can be trained to think out aloud while completing a certain task then the introspections can be analyzed and may provide insights into misunderstandings as well as higher thinking. This talk is a preliminary report of a think aloud conducted with calculus students to understand their difficulties with work problems in integral calculus.