ABSTRACT
The Think Aloud strategy is designed to accomplish three primary goals: creating a self-feedback mechanism, testing one's ideas in public, and making thought processes more intentionally deliberate. The achievement by students of these three goals will go a long way toward creating a reflective perspective in problem solving and other higher-order learning experiences. Students trying to solve problems can benefit from this strategy. A classroom might become a trifle noisy if all students are simultaneously talking their way through mathematics problems, but there is no reason why they cannot do this as part of their homework. A simple technique is to require students to talk to each other in pairs as they solve at least one of the problems or assignments given to them as homework. The student who reads a story quickly does not necessarily understand what she has read better than the more deliberate reader.
