Miriam Leuchter

1 Introduction Summarising is a central academic skill for university students, who are expected to extract, interpret and clearly express relevant information from scientific texts (Kürschner and Schnotz 2007; Leopold et al. 2019; Stevens et al. 2019; van Dijk and Kintsch 1983).

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Citation: Schäfer J, Reuter T, Leuchter M, Karbach J (2024) Validation of new tablet-based problem-solving tasks in primary school students. PLoS ONE 19(8): e0309718. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309718 Editor: Adel Tekari, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax: Centre de Biotechnologie de Sfax, TUNISIA Received: March 12, 2024; Accepted: August 16, 2024; Published: August 29, 2024 Copyright: © 2024 Schäfer et al.

INTRODUCTION Problem-solving abilities in children are assumed to foster subsequent personal and professional success (Diamond, 2018). Thus, problem-solving is a relevant research topic regarding childhood development and educational support (Keen, 2011). Problem-solving describes the process of reaching a desired state (i.e., a goal) that is different from an initial state (Funke et al., 2018).