The health care organization, as a specialized organizational setting, has some characteristics that make it of special concern to the conflict theorist. In a health care setting, conflict may arise as a result of (1) the complexity of medicine and the bureaucracy of health care delivery, (2) the problems of acquiring relevant information from…

Communication behaviors which facilitate cooperative problem solving were investigated in 3- to 5-year-old children. Thirty-two dyads, matched on age, sex and friendship were videotaped as they used balance scales to locate pairs of blocks of varying weight and surface design, but identical in size. All subjects had conventional labels for the…

This issue of "Investigations In Science Education" (ISE) contains abstracts and critical analyses, prepared by science educators, of research reports published in professional journals. The 11 reports discussed involve instruction, problem solving, process skill development, teacher education and behavior, and attitudes. Each abstract includes…

This handbook is a practical guide that can be used by an individual, group, or group leader in planning an active role in community development. Major topics covered are organizing the group; purpose and structure of your organization; how to identify the problem; planning an active program to solve a community problem; planning a large meeting…

It is conjectured that some skill entering into problem solving in physics courses might be responsible for making these courses so difficult. This might be the case if one or more basic problem-solving skills could not be mastered in the time and practice available. In order to test this hypothesis, a model of the way in which students solve…

A program for lifelong learning for the elderly is proposed in this paper. The paper advocates communication education for the elderly; specifies communication concepts related to the older learner, including self-concept, role adaptation, and problem solving; explains instructional methods appropriate to the communication concepts; and offers…

A set of 58 problems that may be solved by using lists is presented. This set is part of the Mathematical Problem Solving Project. The problems are coded for three levels of difficulty and are designed for students in the intermediate grades. Answers are provided. (MP)

This teacher's guide contains instructions for the use of a booklet designed to teach problem solving through guessing. For each lesson the purpose, an overview, and detailed teaching procedures are presented. The five lessons are: (1) using guesses and computation to solve problems; (2) using guesses to solve two-step problems; (3) using guesses…

This appendix to the technical report "Module Development and Formative Evaluation" contains two forms of the quiz covering the module "Using Tables to Solve Problems" as well as teachers' comments on the module. (MP)

Four instruments were selected or developed for the summative evaluation of the Mathematical Problem Solving Project and pilot tested. The instruments were: (1) Student Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ), developed and validated by the MPSP evaluation staff; (2) problems selected from the National Longitudinal Study of Mathematics Achievement (NLSMA);…

This is unit eleven of a fifteen-unit SMSG secondary school text for high school students. The text is devoted almost entirely to mathematical concepts which all citizens should know in order to function satisfactorily in our society. Chapter topics include coordinate geometry and problem analysis. (MP)

Four groups of well-functioning senior citizens (6 males and 18 females per group) over the age of 65 were presented with a series of discrimination-learning problems. All were provided four pretraining problems, appropriate to their individual condition, and encouraging self-pacing. Two levels of problem complexity (four-dimensional vs.…

THIS LEARNING ACTIVITY PACKAGE (LAP) IS DESIGNED TO GUIDE STUDENTS IN LEARNING HOW TO USE AXIOMS, IN WRITING PROBLEMS INTO EQUATION FORM, AND IN SOLVING EQUATIONS. IN ORDER TO ATTAIN THESE GOALS, THE STUDENT AT SOME POINT IN HIS PROGRAM MUST BE ABLE TO (1) WRITE A DEFINITION OF "AXIOM", (2) USE THE AXIOMS OF A FIELD IN SOLVING EQUATIONS, (3)…

Analyzed was the increase in problem-solving ability when students were exposed to, and participated in, various aspects of a problem-solving process. Also analyzed was the nature of the relationship between problem-solving ability, as measured by the author's instrument, and the intelligence quotient, creativity index, and sex of seventh grade…

Investigated were the inferences that children draw from science tests and their relation to the intuitive, concrete and formal levels of thinking and mental development postulated by Piaget. It was found that the older the pupil is, both chronologically and mentally, or the higher his grade placement, the more frequently he uses the formal level…