Describes plans and organization for nationwide environmental teach-in and suggests criteria for evaluating its success. (IR)

Cases give teachers the best way to introduce "outside reality into the classroom, a vital but costly ingredient of engineering education. (IR)

Research supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research. Reprints from: Arthur Whimbey, Dept of Psychology, California State College, 25800 Hillary St., Hayward, California 94542.

Portions of these studies were presented at the 47th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, San Francisco, May 4, 1967.

After a brief review of four characteristics of real problems, and differences between traditional and real problems, four approaches teachers should use to guide gifted students are described, including finding and focusing on a problem, giving methodological and managerial assistance, offering editorial advice and feedback, and finding outlets…

Suggests a method for helping students approach problems and initiate the problem-solving process. The system is a self-dialogue involving five questions: (1) what is the problem? (2) what are you to find? (3) what are the givens and the desired outcomes? (4) what is the appropriate formula? and (5) what decision is needed? (JOW)

Suggests ways in which secondary social studies teachers can help students develop skills in problem solving. (RM)

Management of conflict has assumed great importance among managers. It should be an essential part of the management development process. Human resource development planners should initiate skill training opportunities for supervisors, managers, and technical specialists in conflict resolution to allow for more effective problem solving and…

Ninety-two males aged 17 to 20 were interviewed and categorized in terms of four identity statuses: identity achievement (IA), moratorium (M), foreclosure (F), or identity diffusion (ID). Individuals in the IA and M statuses performed better than those in F and ID statuses on the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, which was used as a…

Examines Sherlock Holmes's reasoning processes and approaches to problem solving and applies his seven principles to students to help them with problem solving. (HTH)

The special issue contains 17 articles on life-space interviewing with emotional disturbed and normal children and adolescents, a technique developed by Fritz Redl which is based on psychodynamic theory and uses a problem-solving method of learning within the pupil's natural environment. (DB)

Describes the use of Transactional Analysis with university students as an alternative to crisis intervention and other mental health strategies. (Author/DB)

Methods for integrating isolated facts determined by research into applicable solutions to practical problems are described. (JD)

Discusses (1) neobehaviorist theory and analysis of response probability, (2) discrete models of qualitative changes in knowledge and stages of processing, and (3) programmed simulations of the detailed structure of knowledge and cognitive processes. Comments on the prospects for developing significant new understandings of learning during the…