Why Students Want Simplicity And Why It Fails Them When It Comes
To Research The research process, by its very nature, can be
both complicated and complex. For students it presents a gap
between the known and unknown. They get a research assignment,
usually broadly defined by the instructor, and then need to
identify a topic without necessarily knowing much of anything
about the subject. Then to further complicate matters the
student must navigate unfamiliar resources, perhaps encountering
new and unusal concepts along the way. A defining quality of a
complex problem is that right answers are not easily obtainable.
Excepting those students who are passionate about the study
matter and research project, most students would prefer to
simplify their research as much as possible. The problem, as a
new article points out, is that applying simple problem solving
approaches to complex problems is a contextual error that will
lead to failure. I think this theory may better inform us about
why students take the path o