Il cooperative problem solving nella scuola secondaria di secondo grado: Report di un'attività di formazione per docenti e studenti - Cooperative problem solving: An experience on the training of high-school teachers and students

We present the results of a training experience dispensed to Italian high-school physics teachers to promote the application of the cooperative problem-solving method as a useful strategy to improve physics learning at highschool level and to foster the development of problem-solving skills. Beside analysing the method and discussing the ways to propose and apply it in a high-school context, the teachers experienced the method acting both as learners and as tutors of student group learners. Students and teachers evaluated the experience as positive, mainly focusing on cooperation within the group by information exchange and the application of a solution scheme. The ex-post analysis of the students’ performances in applying the method to solve some rich-context text showed the need of improving their critical thinking attitude with respect to achieved results to fully exploit the strategy and develop their problem-solving skills.