Success and failure were experimentally induced by means of a puzzle task, and subjects were then required to perform two dependent tasks from which outerdirectedness was inferred. Results supported the hypothesis that children shift from an outerdirected to an interdirected problem-solving style as age increases. (Author)

The approach to educational change outlined here relies on systematic planning for educational problem-solving. (Author/IRT)

Examines the performance of third grade children, given no feedback as to the correctness of their hypotheses, on color, number, and size dominant conjunctive concept problems. (Author/DEP)

Examines whether or not psychiatric patients and normals share the same frame of reference on what constitutes a hierarchy of effective and socially accepted means of solving interpersonal problems. Patients, in contrast with normals, were found to be deficient in their ability to generate means of solving interpersonal problems. (Author/PC)

San Francisco schools face dizzying challenges: low test scores, irrate parents - even the problem of earthquake-proofing the school buildings. (Editor)

This study examines the potential of adult-guided sociodramatic play for improving children's interpersonal problem-solving skills. Nineteen females and 21 males from 3 separate kindergarten classrooms participated in the study. Within each of the three classrooms, children were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. For both…

The Structured Planning and Debugging Editor (SPADE) is a new kind of interactive programming environment in which computer programs are generated by explicitly articulating planning decisions. The design of SPADE is based upon the development of a grammar of plans from a taxonomy of basic planning techniques. The utility of this approach to…