This instructional packet is one of a series of five modules that emphasize a systematic decision-making model for common problematic situations. The steps of the model are identifying the problem, gathering information, developing and assessing alternatives, implementing a solution, and evaluating and modifying the solution. Aimed at adult basic…

The purpose of this paper is to help prepare the teacher of technical writing who is thinking of becoming an industrial consultant. The paper surveys five areas that frequently pose problems for consultants: establishing goals, extracting information from technologists and from source materials, assimilating the information, translating the…

The behaviorist's assumptions that learning has not occurred unless a measurable change in student behavior takes place and that courses will be vastly improved if the exact goals are delineated on a day-to-day basis so that students and instructor know precisely what is expected of them, ring true but translate false. First, any time a dogma is…

This competency-based teacher education module is designed so that the participant can become more effective in solving his or her problems by working through four stages. The four stages are: (a) verbally state your problem; (b) restate your problem and determine how you are involved in the problem; (c) restate your problem and emphasize your…

This report contains a summary of the recommendations of the 4 Task Forces created to study 4 significant aspects of higher education in Connecticut. These areas were: (1) needs: socioeconomic, manpower, and regional; (2) function, scope and structure of Connecticut's higher education system; (3) financing; and (4) qualitative and quantitative…

The author enters the debate on whether problem solving ability consists of sets of situation-specific behaviors or whether it is a general set of mental abilities. The study, utilizing a nonrandom sample of 60 female college sophomores, was designed to test the feasibility of teaching behavior patterns which facilitate problem-solving in diverse…

The objective of this study is to identify some of the structural features of an elementary logic curriculum which affect logic problem difficulty. The system under review is a computer-based logic instructional system (LIS) at Stanford University. Four modes of problem presentation--multiple-choice, truth-analysis, counterexample, and derive--are…

The problems presented at the U.S. Sixth Mathematical Olympiad as well as how the Olympiad selects, trains, and encourages future mathematicians is described. (JT)

Reports the opinions of publishers and editors of city magazines concerning the positioning of the magazines in the media marketplace, factors leading to success, audience composition, and problems facing the industry. (GW)

Reviews the mathematical properties of algorithms and problems which can not be resolved by present methods in mathematics. (SL)

Identifies problems experienced when libraries introduce computerized systems in countries remote from major centers of development, i.e., level of expertise, limited market, financial aspects, type of hardware and software available. Solutions to problems through cooperation and coordination of library computerization and Republic of South Africa…

Professionals often neglect problem-setting because of a preoccupation with problem-solving. Missions, goals, and objectives are products of problem-setting that are important to the process of professionalization. Professionals should become more reflective and reflexive in their approach to problem-setting. (Author/DF)

A disucssion of the conditions and atmosphere at federal boarding schools for Indian children which make them examples of what education should not be. (JC)

Originally published in Spanish in American Indigena," Organo Trimestral del Instituto Indigenista Interamericano (Mexico) in Vol. 31(2), April 1972. (NQ)