From: Case studies of a robot-based game to shape interests and hone proportional reasoning skills
Principle | Explanation |
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Reality principle | Students can make sense of the situation based on their experience. |
Model construction | The task creates a need for a mental model to be constructed, modified, extended, or refined. |
Model documentation | Students are required to explicitly reveal how they are thinking about the problem. |
Self-evaluation | The problem statement includes rubrics enabling students to judge for themselves whether their solution is acceptable. |
Generalizable model | The model should not only work on the specific problem but should be sharable and usable in other situations. |
Simple prototype | The problem should be as simple as possible given the instructional goals. |