Presents program which organizes school counseling consultation as a systematic, systemic educational process for professionals in a school system. Goals are to help school professionals gain effective problem-solving skills for dealing with current issues and to assist in developing an environment conducive to academic and social growth. (ABL)

Presents one view of the state of the world today. Describes a hope to disengage the world from a precarious entanglement that threatens human survival and to seek alternatives that would reduce psychological barriers that impinge on rational communication. (Author)

Panel of nationally recognized experts in group-counseling research, practice, and training discusses major obstacles confronting advancement of research on groups and suggests ways to improve meaningfulness and validity of future research. Presents recommendations of Research Committee of the Association for Specialists in Group Work for…

Responds to Heppner and Krauskopf's article on an information processing approach to personal problem solving by presenting shortcomings in the approach, notably its failure to fully exploit the available information processing concepts to reconceptualize personal problem solving specifically or counseling in general. Nonetheless, sees the…

Compared decision-making style and problem-solving appraisal in 243 undergraduates. Results suggested that individuals who employ rational decision-making strategies approach problematic situations, while individuals who endorse dependent decisional strategies approach problematic situations without confidence in their problem-solving abilities.…

Discusses the nature and role of visualization in the study of mathematics. Also includes a list of seven broad methods (often referred to as the design spectrum) by which individuals solve problems. (JN)

The author criticizes an exploratory study of mathematics curricula for 6-13 year olds for its neglect of the needs of students with learning difficulties. He cites the importance of better assessment strategies, use of the problem-solving approach, development of an intersubject emphasis, and encouragement of estimating abilities. (CL)

Describes a case study in which group process techniques were used to help a national volunteer problem-solving task force be more effective. Includes a group process checklist to assist other groups in thinking through group process needs and activities. (JAC)

A teacher offers six suggestions for giving students opportunities to exercise their commonsense thinking skills. This allows the teacher to ask rather than tell, listen rather than talk, and allows the children to provide for themselves. (MT)

Performance of 10 adult trainees in a workshop for mentally retarded persons and that of an equivalent mental age group of third-grade children was observed in a toy construction task. Performances were videotaped and coded for executive activities that proved to be a powerful influence in discriminating between the groups. (Author/DB)

The article reports results of a survey of 150 curriculum planners about their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior regarding deliberate development of creative thinking and problem-solving skills. A six-step creative problem-solving model is proposed. (CL)

Impact Problem Solving, an approach to teaching gifted students, concentrates upon relevant skills rather than factual content, and teaches methodology of analyzing and clarifying the nature of problems, collecting the necessary data; thinking of all the possible solutions; and assessing, altering, and testing those suggestions to provide the most…

A step-by-step procedure for teaching students to solve time-lapse problems allows the student to convert what is normally a pure mental process to a systematic paper and pencil activity coupled with a step-by-step thought pattern. (CL)

To be creative, an act must have as its outcome something new in the way it is intelligible and valuable. Computers have restricted contexts of information and have no ability to weigh bits of information. Computer optimists presuppose either determinism or indeterminism, either of which abandons creativity. (MT)

All six students reached the 100% criterion preference level under simulated training conditions and three Ss immediately generalized to the actual community environment. Although the skills that were acquired in the simulated environment by the remaining three Ss did not transfer immediately to the actual community, fewer in vivo trials were…