While many job enrichment programs fail, a program called Analytical Trouble Shooting has been successful in training people to increase their problem-solving capabilities and to communicate readily with persons in other areas and on different levels. (AG)

A High School course, General Studies Survival Curriculum, was designed to aid students in problem solving in a complex society. Areas of concern were psychology, consumer economics, environmental studies, law and society, religion and values, ethnic studies, applied aesthetics, creative studies, occupations and futurism. (JB)

Examines the "backward state of technology" in the ancient world and relates social and economic factors, concluding that the level of technology of a nation sets certain limits to social and material development; conclusion of an article begun in the April 1973 issue of "Greece and Rome". (RL)

Article considered the use of quotas to satisfy problems in education and social life. (RK)

Investigated the hypothesis that lower-class children expect a lower degree of success than middle-class peers, due to environmental differences in reward for problem-solving behavior. Results were interpreted as supportive of the hypothesis - suggested that expectancies can be quickly learned. (DP)

The author provides an example of obtaining the correct answer to a problem through a so-called nonsense solution. The conditions under which this incorrect method will yield a correct solution are examined. (JP)

Two approaches are discussed for calculating the work necessary to pump water from a conical or parabolic container. The direct method derived from the definition of work is easy to misuse, as illustrated by a student's incorrect solution. (JP)

The present study observed problem-solving styles with anagrams to see whether observing a model solve anagrams in a rigid or flexible way would affect the types of solutions the subjects used. (Author)

Paper presents derivations of expressions for functions for any absorbing Markov-chain model. (Author)

A brief history of the development of our present day Gregorian calendar is given. Methods are then given, based on congruences, to determine such things as the week-day for any given date and the date for Easter in any year. (LS)

Explores the relationship between university knowledge and national problems. (GB)

A brief discussion of major concerns of school principals with suggestions of how the supportive staff may help the principal understand and deal effectively with these problems. (JC)

Reviewed and analyzed is The California Tomorrow Plan,'' an imaginative and comprehensive strategy for turning society's assault on the environment into a coherent effort for solving social and environmental problems. If offers a rational method and system for identifying, analyzing, and coping with major disruptions in our society and…