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Vermont State Dept. of Education, Montpelier. – 1979
This guide defines the basic competencies in reasoning and describes how to incorporate them into the educational program at all grade levels. Reasoning is the ability to approach day-to-day problems with intelligent decision-making skills. It is important for students to begin developing reasoning skills at an early age and in all subject areas.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Classification, Critical Thinking, Decision Making
Straesser, Rudolf – 1980
This paper focuses on mathematics education in Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) in West Germany. The "dual system" of TVE, a part-time college/part-time on-the-job training scheme that normally leads to a certificate of a qualified worker after three years, is reviewed. Entrance tests for the trainee posts focus heavily on aspects of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Algorithms, Basic Skills
Chan, Adrian – 1980
National surveys reveal that citizens of all age groups, from school age to adult, are ignorant about the law and its practical use in daily life. The advocate counseling model is an integrative approach combining the elements of legal research and therapeutic counseling in order to teach and guide individuals or groups with institutional problems…
Descriptors: Advocacy, College Role, College Students, Counseling Techniques
MCKENNEY, JAMES L. – 1967
THE PRESENT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL MANAGEMENT SIMULATION GAME WAS DEVELOPED AS A TEACHING DEVICE FOR CLASSES OF 20 OR MORE STUDENTS GROUPED INTO FOUR- AND FIVE-MAN TEAMS CALLED "FIRMS." EACH FIRM COMPETES WITH OTHERS IN AN "INDUSTRY," AN ECONOMIC ABSTRACTION OF A CONSUMER GOODS MARKET PROGRAMED TO BE SIMULATED ON AN ELECTRONIC…
Descriptors: Business, Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Decision Making
Citrus County Board of Public Instruction, Inverness, FL. – 1979
This collection of booklets deals with minumum standards in mathematics for beginning eleventh grade students. There is a statement of the standards with related skills, a test to assess competency with accompanying answer sheet and answer key, and eight booklets presenting problems covered by six of the standards. The booklets cover: percentages;…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Decimal Fractions, Environmental Education, Fractions
Manus, Lee Aura; Zipser, Dean – 1977
An interdisciplinary course in problem solving, entitled "patterns of problem solving," and its unique peer program offered at the University of California, Los Angeles, are described. The emphasis in the subject matter and approach is to expose the student to the wide range of alternative problem solving techniques and to enable the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Course Descriptions
Kimball, William; And Others – 1980
A small residential center for boys with learning disabilities and/or emotional problems was the setting for an intensive six-week inservice program designed to provide the staff with a combination of tutorial and direct training. The training was subsequently integrated into a more formalized, comprehensive, and on-going program through a local…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Problems, Exceptional Persons, Group Behavior
Download full textRohrkemper, Mary M.; Brophy, Jere E. – 1980
Elementary teachers' responses to vignettes depicting twelve types of student problem behavior (instructional concerns: failure syndrome, perfectionist, underachiever, and low achiever; aggression problems: hostile aggressive, passive aggressive, and defiant; activity issues: short attention span, hyperactive, and immature; and peer relation…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Aggression, Attention Span, Behavior Modification
Baenziger, Betty – 1977
By using word problems relevant to agricultural occupations, this workbook presents a concept-oriented approach to competency development in seven areas of basic mathematics: (1) the expression of numbers as figures and words; (2) the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals; (3) ratios and…
Descriptors: Addition, Agricultural Education, Basic Skills, Charts
Paul, Douglas A. – 1977
The purpose of this review is twofold--to summarize the major models of educational change and to present a series of generalizations based on recent empirical studies about educational change. In the first section, previous reviews of the change literature are presented in order to establish a broad perspective concerning research in this area.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Bibliographies, Change Agents, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Collea, Francis P.; Nummedal, Susan – 1979
Presented is a report on a course for undergraduate students which is designed to increase their intellectual abilities early in their college careers. The report gives the characteristics of concrete thought and formal reasoning, followed by an explanation of the process involved in data collecting and the data itself. The authors suggest that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Science
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1979
Eight social studies skills and strategies for their implementation at the secondary level are outlined. Each skill is presented in a separate chapter which defines the skill, offers a rationale for its inclusion, and provides sample activities. Chapter I focuses on listening and speaking skills. Activities emphasize using a recording to develop…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Citizen Participation, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading
Sheehan, Bernard S.; Hillman, Barbara J. – 1979
The student traceback model is described and is used to demonstrate various concepts relative to institutional research methodology. The methodology of the problem-solving institutional researcher includes a wide spectrum of how-to's: how to anticipate issues in higher education and estimate their practical institutional impact; how to develop the…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1979
This manual was developed to help principals identify and monitor human barriers (intentional and unintentional social behaviors that produce negative reactions) in their schools. It is also intended to help administrative staff, teachers, other school-site staff, students, parents, and community members and groups become aware of school-related…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Intergroup Relations
Lesh, Richard, Ed.; And Others – 1979
This collection of nine papers, prepared for a conference held at Northwestern University in 1978, presents varied perspectives on applied problem solving. Assessing applied problem solving, planning for interest and motivation, developing a theory, reviewing research findings, considering learning disabilities, analyzing through information…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Mathematics, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Research
