Attempts to develop an appreciation of the first-line supervisor's job and his responsibilities to management, to his worker-subordinates, to his peers, and to himself are presented. In particular this document studies the making of decisions, and discusses do's and dont's of face-to-face problem-solving with a subordinate. A movie film brings out…

A programed investment decision system was developed with the aid of generalized perceptron-type pattern recognition techniques. It was implemented in form of a man-machine (MM) system: The human analyst performs (1) some unstructured (heuristic) decision functions, (2) parts of identification of the decision situation, and (3) numerical encoding…

Functions with a variety of properties (sets of discontinuities, unbounded derivations, etc.) are discussed. (SD)

Article discussed possible approaches to the question of how to design and accurately assess the construct validity of self-concept instruments. (Author/RK)

A discussion of differential equations is accompanied by an analysis of two situations whose solutions require differential equations. A computer program is given that will solve these equations. (MP)

Describes an organization development program for educational systems and reviews an experiment conducted to assess its impact on elementary schools and their teaching staffs. Results indicate that the program was generally successful in establishing collective structures and increasing the perceived adequacy of collective decision processes in…

Investigated the relationship between scores on the Orientation Inventory (Ori) and overt behavior during a small-group problem-solving activity. A special observation system scored the students' behavior in ten-second time-sampling intervals. Ori scores did not correlate even moderately well with the behavior of the subjects during the…

A format for translating evaluation theory into practice structures the material around a series of questions that can be addressed in any situation. (Author/MLF)

In order to determine if the syntactic complexity of written mathematical problems influenced students' abilities to solve problems, 45 eighth-grade remedial math students were studied. (PHR)

Teams of two college freshmen and two college seniors, or one freshman and one senior, solved factually oriented problems cooperatively. Subjects on a team worked in adjoining rooms and exchanged information by means of handwritten notes. Performance was assessed on the time required to solve problems and on behavioral measures of activity.…

A specially designed discrimination learning task was used to investigate whether the performance of kindergarten and first grade children could be improved through explicit training with a simple hypothesis-testing strategy. (Author/MP)

Discussed is the problem of finding the volume common to two intersecting right circular cylinders. (MP)

Project Aware represents an attempt to develop a human relations program for elementary school. The major purpose is to facilitate development of interpersonal understanding and problem-solving skills in children 5 to 11 years of age through group discussions and enrichment activities in language arts, social studies, art, music, and reading.…

Suggests that a model of learned helplessness must give equal weight to motivational and cognitive components. Subjects were 102 female and 58 male college students in psychology classes. (MP)

Three calculation methods were compared in solving problems involving frequency distributions, manual, basic calculator, and advanced calculator. Calculators were more efficient but there was no difference in calculator type. (MP)