The Delphi technique is a method for the systematic solicitation and aggregation of informed judgments from a group of experts on specific questions or issues. This paper is a discussion of the technique: its uses, misuses, and future. (Author)

Units to help disruptive children--and those they disrupt--have been set up by some authorities and schools. Author looks at policies and practice in Bristol, Gateshead and the ILEA units in Reading. (Editor)

Attempts to distinguish between two major categories of creativity and draws from the fields of music and art for examples showing how these two types merge compatibly to produce a tangible outcome. (Author/RK)

Author states that modern education has provided students with an adequate ability to solve given problems and implement solutions, but has overlooked the importance of problem-finding, a skill which involves defining purpose, setting personal objectives, and exploring interests. (RW)

One activity concerned with describing data about students in the class and a second activity based on students' original story problems are discussed. (DT)

In spite of legislation mandating consumer participation in health care delivery, providers of care call the tune. This article analyzes the reasons for consumers' inability to make fundamental changes in professional priorities and their cooptation when they actually take part in decision making. (Editor)

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Organizations must recognize that training and development managers can and should play a role in organizational problem-solving. They can be quite effective in directing the jury technique of analyzing and solving unexpected contingencies. (Author)

This article presents, in the context of solving a specific mathematical problem, an argument to indicate how problem posing can lead to a deeper understanding of what is involved in the act of problem solving. (DT)

Four problems concerning the maximum number of regions determined by circles and polygons are explored. (DT)

An algebra problem is analyzed, and several variations are suggested for further student inquiry. Practical applications of the problem are discussed. (DT)

Discusses teaching the minimization of area and distance, such as finding the minimum length of expressway connecting four cities by using an analogy of a soap film between two Lucite plates. (MLH)

Differences in mathematics performance between boys and girls were investigated. Tests with content appropriate for boys or for girls were given randomly to 163 boys and 147 girls from ten high schools. Differences in performance favored the boys. Students' performance tended to be better on questions with sex-appropriate contextual settings. (DT)

It is now recognised that thinking skills, such as problem-solving, analysis, synthesis, creativity and evaluation, can be nurtured and developed, and education professionals can play a significant role in shaping the way that children learn and think. As a result, schools are being encouraged to make greater use of thinking skills in lessons and…

As part of a larger investigation of preservice teachers' use of, and movement amongst, various modes of representing exponential relationships, this report focuses on one case study, that of Mike, whose facility in moving amongst representational registers was not matched by conceptual understanding of the underlying mathematical ideas as he…