Receive modeling of selected strategies. Students get assignments for problem logs in last ten minutes. Gather more data if necessary. Generate an action plan, and decide how the group will present it. Again, students receive questions to write about in their logs.
Students write individual reflections on the problems in their logs.
Three trained raters who are all blind to the subjects' treatment assignments will be instructed to assign point values to each essay on the basis of a holistic rating of the essay. They will consider how well the essay responds to the question given, its use of original phrasing of concepts, how well it is tied to the details of the problem being studied, and how well it reflects an understanding of the applicability of a designated strategy. The raters will score each essay individually, and resolve any uncertainties about how to score the essays through discussion. A portion of the essays will be randomly selected to be scored again by a different rater to determine the interrater reliability. For the problem logs, there will be only two sets of essays, so differences can be assessed using a t test for independent samples.