Students had great difficulty identifying the problem possibly due to underdeveloped critical reading skills.

Once students identified the problem, they had great difficulty devising a plan.

Students had difficulty communicating why they were doing what they were doing.

Students had difficulty devising a plan.

We made some assumptions about technology access and familiarity that were not true (i.e. Internet)

From our observations we have formed a hypothesis:

Students need to be required, from a very early age, to support their decision-making process.