The authors, while developing instruments to assess a person's "environmental orientations," observed the emergence of several general approaches to environmental problem solving. This research report describes those findings. (BT)

Examines three problem-solving models that have applications for the elementary school classroom. All are easily understandable, practical, pedagogical, and will improve children's thinking. Models are the Universal Traveler, Philosophy for Children, and the Decide Model. (Author/AV)

Describes a problem solving method, in five basic steps, for training managers to develop problem solving skills. The net result is to help organizations survive and grow while helping the manager cope with his situation. (Author/RK)

In the aftermath of the Attica prison riot, the shooting of George Jackson at San Quentin, and a major prison scandal in Arkansas, an assessment of public reaction to inmate grievances tests basic values in American politics. (Editor)

Suggests activities that can assist in learning how to develop hypotheses. (HOD)

Characteristics of the school organization and the miseducation of educational practitioners orient educators toward designing solutions before they have analyzed the target problems. (Author)

Subjects worked on a problem, engaged in an intervening activity, and then resumed work on the problem. Different intervening activities represented various mechanisms that produce incubation (e.g., set breaking, facilitation by analogy, review of the problem's elements). These various treatment groups were compared to a control group that worked…

Productive thinking, problem solving, and strategies for coping, learning, and living are all part of the ZING curriculum for emotionally disturbed and/or learning disabled students in grades 6, 7, and 8. (Author/SBH)

Cognitive organization in problem solving was investigated using a transfer paradigm. (SB)

Instructional exercises were applied in an attempt to increase children's problem solving skills; performance in two training groups was greater than in that of a control group. (KS)

Suggests that before secondary principals can deal effectively with discipline problems, they should graph disciplinary incidents according to the school calendar in order to identify peak behavioral problem periods. (JG)

This clinical, exploratory study describes processes used by 8 ninth-graders learning to solve non-routine geometry problems and changes in those processes as instruction in heuristic methods was given. Directions for future research are indicated, and several hypotheses to be investigated are suggested. (DT)

Author states the need for "...a future-focused curriculum which has at its center in every school subject the teaching of concept development, logical synthesizing, and inventive problem-solving". (Author/RW)

Discusses metacognitive and associative models of children's strategy discovery and use. Contends that models based on only one type of mechanism cannot entirely account for observed variability and constraint revealed by microgenetic studies of children's strategy change. Proposes a new model of children's strategy development in which…