Storyboarding techniques are useful for teams faced with creative and problem-solving tasks. Four types are planning, idea, organization, and communication boards. Each type requires a creative thinking (brainstorming) session and a critical thinking session to evaluate ideas and determine their usefulness. (SK)

Suggests that long-term vision, commitment of sufficient time and money, adequate planning, and sufficient training and coaching are necessary for the success of teams. In addition, teams must be responsible for solving their own problems. Offers recommendations for a number of problems and situations that often arise. (JOW)

Describes the IDEATE (identify, define, explore, assess, try, evaluate) Model, a problem-solving technique that includes four components: a problem-solving statement, research and development, testing of solutions, and evaluation. It fits with scientific and engineering principles present in a technology education classroom. (Author/JOW)

Examined relationships between means-ends problem solving and suicidality among adult male prisoners (n=93). Found that among prisoners with history of parasuicide, current suicidality did not affect problem-solving performance. Among nonsuicidal inmates, parasuicide history had no effect on problem-solving or affect-suicidality measures.…

Develops a brief, psychoanalytically informed treatment model for borderline and narcissistic couples. Advantages and disadvantages as well as treatment principles of brief treatment for this population are explored. Phases of treatment are reviewed with an emphasis on process and interventions. Explores managing the spiraling escalation of affect…

Structural aspects that relate the trivial machine, nontrivial machine, and the actor system are discussed. The term rationalism is discussed in terms of discourses that include or exclude those who participate in the debate. Subsequently, the author elaborates on the notion of reality and the meaning of the real world in relation to gaming,…

In this paper, we explore the influence of the teacher on the language games being played in a Grade 3 mathematics classroom. The kinds of listening strategies used by the teacher seemed to have an impact on the kind of language game being played as a small group of students engaged in a problem-solving activity. Understanding classroom…

Representations are used extensively in mathematics and translation ability is highly correlated with success in mathematics education. The authors investigate the translation ability of university students as far as the concept of function is concerned. The research focuses on the relationship between success in, solving direct translation tasks…

Gestures are a common, integral part of communication. Here, we investigate the roles of gesture and speech in explanations, both for communicators and recipients. Communicators explained how to assemble a simple object, using either speech with gestures or gestures alone. Gestures used for explaining included pointing and exhibiting to indicate…

This paper reports the analysis of the resolution of a paper-and-pencil problem, by eight undergraduate students majoring in engineering (six) and physics (two) at the Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The problem concerns kinetics of a rigid body, and the analysis was done in the light of Johnson-Lairds…

Theories of insight problems are often tested by formulating hypotheses about the particular difficulties of individual insight problems. Such evaluations often implicitly assume that there is a single difficulty. We argue that the quantitatively small effects of many studies arise because the difficulty of many insight problems is determined by…

When text passages include seductive details (i.e., interesting, tangentially related adjuncts that are irrelevant to the lesson), students perform worse on recall (Garner, Gillingham, & White, 1989) and problem-solving tests (Harp & Mayer, 1997, 1998) than students reading the same material without seductive details. To determine whether…

In order to create an environment that encourages resiliency, care givers must first understand some of the specific attributes that make up the resilient child. While not intended as an exhaustive list, one could say that a resilient child will have an accurate self-awareness, possess effective problem-solving skills, be able to communicate well,…

While the scientific method is a logical, orderly way to solve a problem or answer a question, it is not a magical formula that is too complicated for nonscientists to comprehend (Keeton and Gould 1986). The scientific method may include a variety of steps, processes, and definitions. It should not be seen as a single series of steps, with no…

This paper presents a rationale for doing philosophy with children. It suggests a rationale that differs from more usual arguments supporting philosophy with children--for such reasons as that it will enhance problem solving-skills or will help pupils' thinking to be more logical. These worthy objectives are not denied but only considered somewhat…