Offers three "unabashedly normative" considerations for translating organizational communication scholarship to practice: identifying a problem, incorporating participant voices, and presenting research to practitioners. Suggests that by engaging in these practices scholars can create alternative organizational stories and in doing so create space…

Investigates the effects of visual organization and cooperative learning in problem-solving strategy. Examines participating students' multiple-choice problem-solving ability, strategy performing ability, anxiety about chemistry learning, perception of involvement, and motivation to learning science. Reports a significant main effect in strategy…

Investigates how students interpret and analyze multivariate data organized in tables and the nature of external visual displays that they tend to create and use for this purpose. Reports that: (1) students based their conclusions on only part of the data; (2) students did not use either efficient or sufficient visual representations; and (3)…

Describes the use of calculator based laboratory (CBL) technology in monitoring the process of chemical reactions. Explains the estimation of infinity readings and criteria to choose t values. (YDS)

Studied differences between families of victims, bullies, bully/victims, and noninvolved children in family functioning, child rearing practices, and problem solving strategies in hypothetical conflicts and perception differences between children and parents. Findings for 1,719 fifth and sixth graders show important differences between children…

Briefly reviews Dewey's theory of moral inquiry and his thoughts on the deliberative process, and then explores the importance of communal deliberation in overcoming complex problems. The negotiation of various perspectives in communal deliberations is applied to the leader's role--especially to administrative work in schools. (Contains 50…

Discusses the need for subject-matter experts who understands that purity of content must be coupled with ensuring that the participants actually learn. Looks at ways to leverage and circulate intellectual capital within an organization. (JOW)

Examines whether feedback regarding client progress and the use of clinical support tools (CSTs) affected client outcome and number of sessions attended. Results showed that clients in the feedback plus CST group stayed in therapy longer and had superior outcomes. Nearly twice as many clients in the feedback plus CST group achieved clinically…

Using a centuries-old tradition of talking circles has helped many school districts teach children how to really listen to other students, appreciating each other's differences, ideas, and thoughts. (GCP)

This case study of one city's efforts to cope with homelessness centers around a conceptual model of consensus as a continuous process the nature of which is determined by the methods used to achieve consensus; the importance of maintaining consensus to the participants; the baseline consensus as interaction begins; and the political and public…

Described is "Genisys," an instructional program that teaches remedial and mildly handicapped students how to solve complex earth science problems. The program combines a 35-lesson videodisc course with a computer program which uses multiple rules for giving feedback, recycling missed exercises, and diagnosing underlying deficits in…

NASSP's Assessment Center Project has identified 12 key skills for successful principals: problem analysis, judgment, organizational ability, decisiveness, leadership, sensitivity, stress tolerance, oral communication, written communication, wide-ranging interests, personal motivation, and educational values. Effective principals succeed by…

Brains are biological, but minds are cultural achievements. What really counts in schools is teaching children the excitement of exploring ideas, helping youngsters formulate their own problems and resolution strategies, developing multiple literacy forms, imparting the importance of wonder, creating a sense of community, and recognizing each…

From their experience with open-ended tests requiring higher-order thinking and problem-solving abilities, schoolchildren in the USSR learn to think before answering. U.S. students instead train for rapid response, learning how to take tests rather than how to solve problems. Tests should be part of the curriculum, not separate from it. (MLH)

Identifies some of the obstacles that inhibit the transition from industrial arts to technology education. Provides suggestions for avoiding or coping with the problems. (JOW)