The author defines a network, discusses its relevance, and lists its characteristics. He then presents an appraisal of participatory research, its history, origin, and an attempt to outline directions for its future. (JOW)

Notes that brief therapy has often been regarded as "problem solving therapy." Discusses development of a solution-focused approach to clinical practice and describes solution-focused therapeutic tasks and interventions. Outlines some of clinical procedures and interventions possible when a solution-focused approach is used. (Author/NB)

John Deere's systematic problem-solving training for its employees is applicable in the vocational classroom. The process includes stating the problem, writing its specifications, identifying distinctions, determining changes that occurred at the time, identifying possible causes, testing the possibilities, verifying the most probable cause, and…

The Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD), a cognitive assessment model designed to measure cognitive processes during problem solving, emphasizes determination of specific types of thinking abilities used in mastering cognitive tasks rather than just on the solution. The LPAD is seen as an important advance in evaluating individual…

Effects of several logical memory and semantic variables on verbal and math problem-solving performances of 48 mildly retarded adolescents were assessed. Results revealed that Ss' overall problem-solving performance was inferior to that of nonretarded fourth graders in spite of comparable performance on a computational screening test. (Author/CL)

Reasoning and imagining are seen as very different acts of mind. Imagination connotes the counterfactual and the unruly; reasoning connotes a realistic and rule-bound activity. Good reasoning depends crucially on the vigorous exercise of imagination. Good informal reasoning is as difficult, and as dependent on imagination, as mathematical…

A troubleshooting audiovisual (AV) workshop in Minnesota has proved successful in reaching the needs of the user of audio and visual hardware. (Author)

Part 1 of a two-part series, the article is a summary of social theory and use of a list of fourteen factors identified as significant to problem diagnosis based on behavior studies of six different cultures. Part 2 will appear in the Summer issue of the Journal. (AG)

Contains a listing of recent works relating to Creativity and Problem Solving as reported in Dissertation Abstracts International. (Editor/RK)

Long associated with planned meetings, the author makes a plea for the involvement of participants to ensure program interest. (Editor)

The results lend support to the hypothesis that perceived difficulty can account for the interaction between sex of subject and context of problem observed in this and previous studies. (Author)

Recent developments and future prospects in the borrowing of biological principles to build problem solving relationships between human intelligence and the information storage and manipulation capacities of computers. Twenty-one references. (LY)

An attempt to distinguish between the functions of evaluation and research in the larger context of the problem- solving process. (AA)