Researchers generally agree that induction is defined as going beyond the information
and extending knowledge from known to new instances (e.g., Feeney & Heit, 2007; Shye, 1988)
and have identified many ways in which individuals go about solving various inductive problems.
For the purposes of this study, the following three defining characteristics are relevant to
induction in educational contexts: (a) “establishing” a rule from the given information; (b)
having no established procedures in which to navigate through a problem; and (c) having no
verifiable single solution to an inductive problem.