Twenty-eight educable mentally retarded (EM R) children participated in an 8-week training program on choosing the best alternative. (Author)

Move sequence analysis revealed that, when presented with problems having subgoals difficult to order, 40 preschoolers between 45 and 70 months of age (1) tended to avoid backup; (2) were sensitive to incremental progress toward a goal; and (3) searched moves ahead for a goal. None of several indices of performance were reliably correlated with…

Reviewed research with the Twenty Questions Task aimed at investigating problem solving across the life span. Research indicates use of an efficient problem-solving strategy increases during childhood and then decreases again during the later adult years. Elderly adults' performance was facilitated when the necessity of using an efficient strategy…

Ten hearing impaired adolescents receiving Instrumental Enrichment demonstrated improvements in: systematic approaches to problems; analysis of problem situations; vocabulary size; analysis of source-of-error in problem-solving situations; completeness, organization, and planning in problem-solving situations; peer cooperation in problem solving;…

Indicates that two major nonexclusive permutation problem-solving strategies increase with age: (1) mathematical group structure, and (2) holding initial marks constant while permuting the remainder. Significant sex differences are suggested. This report is based on a dissertation submitted to the Graduate School of Purdue University by the first…

Discusses the effect of bilingualism on cognitive growth and divergent thinking. That bilinguals have the potential for increased communication and greater problem solving should encourage United States' educators to consider bilingual education as a curriculum model for almost everyone. (Author)

Two stages of skill development are: declarative (facts are interpreted) and procedural (knowledge is embodied in skill procedures). Knowledge compilation moves skills from the declarative to procedural stage in subprocesses of composition, which collapses sequences of productions into single productions, and proceduralization, which embeds…

Examines how children develop as writers and presents new ways of looking at children's problem solving in what they do and say during the writing process. Presents an outline of the general orders of child focus in the writing process. (HTH)

Encourages an expansion of the counselor's role through an evaluation of the efficacy of certain cognitive training procedures in teaching young children skills for interpersonal problem solving. (Author)

A set of covariation problems was structured so that the solution pattern across problems would indicate the judgment rule used by each subject. A developmental trend across subjects in fourth, seventh, and tenth grades and in college demonstrated rule shifts toward use of increasingly accurate rules. (Author/RH)

It was concluded that developmental trends were evident only within the normal sample and that performance of the normal Ss was generally superior to that of the TMR Ss, although significant differences were not obtained at all age levels. (Author/DLS)

Suggests ways puppets can be used to foster young children's problem solving abilities. (CM)

Examined precursors of knowledge change in college students' developing understanding of gear movement. Found that only some participants changed their problem-solving approach after instruction. Results suggest that having multiple approaches available and using instructional information to build on not-well-developed conceptions may contribute…