Community education (CE) is discussed as a process and program for community improvement. A three-dimensional dynamic program design called "The Cube," which serves as a model for CE evaluation, is presented. (Author/JOW)

Reports the findings of research that correlated the differentiation and association abilities of researchers in an industrial research and development firm and a chemical research company with their demonstrated scientific creativity to test a dual-nature theory of creativity. Author discusses the implications for developing creative work teams.…

The effects of group problem-solving methods and problem-situation complexity on attempts at implementing group solutions were investigated in a laboratory field setting. Structure in group decision-making processes led to increased rates of implementation attempts at all levels of problem-situation complexity. (Author/IRT)

Presents 21 ideas for helping children learn to do story problems in math. (SJL)

Argues that technical writing is a problem-solving activity that includes analyzing the primary aim of the communication, pinning down the constraints that will shape the writing, and doing the actual writing. (TJ)

A modified Delphi Technique can be used to reach consensus in decision making and conflict resolution. Such an approach was used in the Paramus (New Jersey) Public Schools to resolve a conflict between principals and a committee of parents, students, and specialists concerning a program for gifted and talented students. (Author/MLF)

Learning is analyzed into two components, monitoring and strategy learning, using a technique that avoids the confounding of the Durling and Schick method. A strategy analysis showed that most subjects employed the same strategy across problems. Strategy shifters displayed a small tendency toward more efficient strategies. (Author/GK)

A comparison of 11 reading disabled and 11 normal children's (mean age 9 years) responses to a conditional discrimination learning set (LS) task was undertaken. The results indicated that normal children are more adept at solving the LS task than the reading disabled children. (Author/CL)

The author contends that the differences in people's reasoning abilities are a matter of how efficiently they are able to process information and proposes a problem solving approach for retarded learners which is systematic, predictable, and more consistent with their abilities and experiences. (SBH)

Distinguishes between organizational development (OD) and therapy. OD is defined as a mechanism for problem solving in complex socio-technical systems. Describes possible drawbacks and advantages of the OD process. Provides examples of how OD has helped managers and non-managers work together. (CSS)

Argues that incrementalism's weakness is that it is another rational approach to problem solving when what is needed is a nonrational approach--creativity. Offers guidelines for improving creativity in oneself and in the work environment. (IRT)

Results of the second mathematics assessment show that students are alarmingly weak in problem-solving ability. (Author)

In education, evaluative data concerning the merit of materials, methods, and programs, are used by the decision maker to project the probable value of consequences of alternative actions from several points of view and then place all of these evaluative data in the context of the normative requirements and constraints of the situation. (JMF)

Think aloud data were gathered from 19 subjects solving three statistical problems. Good problem solvers differed from poor in that they (1) more often clarified essential concepts related to the problem, or (2) appeared to attend more closely to what was actually asked for in the problem. (Author/SJL)

A content analysis of the 23 prime time and Saturday morning television programs most popular with children suggested that in prime time programs, assertive and helping behavior were more frequent than aggression in efforts to solve problems, but that the rate of aggression was higher in Saturday programs. (GT)