Describes an instrument designed to identify with considerable agreement appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes for gynecology curriculum, relate it to other curriculum content, and determine where it should appear in the curriculum. Focus is on clinical problems to be solved and the underlying processes. (JT)

Beginning with an analysis of the golden rectangle, the author shows how a series of problems for student investigation arise from queries concerning changes in conditions and analogous situations. (SD)

Twenty puzzles originally posed by Sam Loyd (1841-1911) are presented. Solutions are provided. (SD)

The game of roulette is analyzed. (SD)

Cites the advantages of studying the group process through the historical example and notes specific principles that students can draw from these models to apply to their own discussion groups. (MH)

A successful remedial tutorial for students repeating portions of the first-year program, including physiology, at the University of Rochester School of Medicine focused on developing problem-solving ability by teaching writing skills based on an essay model. (JT)

Discusses the use, types, and advantages of simulation activities in problem-solving instruction. Reviews a research study of simulation in medical education. (MLH)

Explored the relationship between knowing how to think and teaching students to think. The findings indicated that development of pupil's intellectual capacities depend on an adequate assimilation of general methods of thinking and that psychology, logic, and pedagogy can today provide the teacher with the technical resources necessary to make…

Questions the justification of competency based teacher evaluation as it is presently used and recommends that the education profession establish a peer group rating system which would consider a teacher's record as it has accumulated over a period of time. (Author/DB)

Six different methods were used by students to solve the problem of finding the area of a given trapezoid. A seventh method used by textbooks is also discussed. (MP)

The old empirical-rational and power-coercive system of policy development and implementation is inappropriate in our pluralistic environment. The problem-solving strategy combines rationality, involvement, flexibility, and decentralization. It has new implications for administrators' roles. (Author/SJL)

An instrument is presented for self-assessment by secondary school principals to identify both their willingness to intervene and their style of intervention in conflict situations with students and colleagues. (Author/MLF)

In positively assessing Johnson (1978) (AA 529 124), this research proposes that the basic purpose of normative models of selection strategies is the development of continuous quantitative measures of problem-solving efficiency, while descriptive models determine degree of correspondence between formal normative models and actual behavior.…

Describes Bechtel Corporation's Organization Development (OD) system, which focuses on action/task identification, planning, operating decisions, and productivity. Presents eight-step process through which OD specialists help managers assess work-related problems (largely through interviews), action planning, implementation, and followup. Process…