The development and validation of a test of science problem solving skills for use in grades one through three are described. Norms (grade placement scores) for children in urban, outer-urban, and suburban areas are provided for the total score on alternate forms of the test, each of which uses two physical science problems to assess (1) the…

The study concerns the performances of first grade children in solving problems involving subtraction situations and the relationship of these performances to levels of conservation of numerousness and to I.Q. groups. The subjects were grouped into levels of conservation by a pretest administered prior to the main test of problem solving in…

The purpose of this research was to measure the effectiveness of two methods of automated instruction in teaching sixth grade students selected problem solving behaviors, namely observing, comparing, classifying, interpreting, analyzing, making assumptions, summarizing, and critical thinking. Two treatments (one visual and one auditory) were…

This document reports on statistics regarding the need for day care facilities for children under the age of six. It also gives suggestions for making better use of local day care resources. Statistics show that: (1) There are more than 5 million children in this country under the age of 6 whose mothers work; (2) There are licensed day care…

This report is divided into two parts. The first part contains the major sections of the author's doctoral dissertation comparing the effects of two instructional problem-solving programs. The fifth grade students in six classes (three schools) were randomly assigned to the two programs: The Productive Thinking Program, a commercially-available…

Factors surrounding needs and obstacles in Swedish adult education are studied. Homogenous and heterogenous groups with varying degrees of interest in participation were chosen for the study. A survey of the literature concerning participation in adult education was made. As part of this study, notice was made of the participation in adult…

As part of a symposium on "A Plan for the Comprehensive Evaluation of College Teaching," this paper focuses on the third of three suggested levels of an evaluation matrix, specific feedback data aimed at pinpointing reasons for and solving problems with teaching and classroom activities. Methods of getting specific feedback data from students and…

The purpose of the study was to see if systematic instruction in terms of a multi-experience approach improved verbal problem solving ability, to determine what differences resulted when concrete experiences were not used, and to ascertain the effects of delayed recall on the two different methods. A sample of 15 groups of six fourth-grade…

A brief statement of what ecology means in the 1970's, how we have upset our biosphere, and what are alternatives are, form the introduction in this booklet about ecology for upper elementary and senior high school students. The text and illustrations develop an overview of planet Earth as an interactive unit to establish a basis for understanding…

Five study segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this fourth problems and solutions book used as a part of student course work. The subject matter is related to electric charges, insulators, Coulomb's law, electric fields, lines of force, solid angles, conductors, motion of charged particles, dipoles, electric flux,…

Four study segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this fifth problems and solutions book used as a part of student course work. The subject matter is related to work in electric fields, potential differences, parallel plates, electric potential energies, potential gradients, capacitances, and capacitor circuits.…

Four study segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this sixth problems and solutions book used as a part of student course work. The subject matter is related to electric currents, current densities, resistances, Ohm's law, voltages, Joule heating, electromotive forces, single loop circuits, series and parallel…

Five study segments of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this seventh problems and solutions book used as a part of student course work. The content is related to magnetic fields, magnetic moments, forces on charged particles in magnetic fields, electron volts, cyclotron, electronic charge to mass ratio, current-carrying…

Two Research Memoranda, numbers 15 and 16, are contained in this volume. (The general nature of the memoranda are described and related documents listed in SO 005 892). The first essay by Daniel E. Costello, entitled "Communication, Knowledge and the Educator as a Problem-Namer", views the problem of knowledge formation and utilization within…

This document is concerned with the efforts of the United Nations toward putting into concrete form the problem of adult education and its multiple aspects in an attempt to launch an attack against illiteracy. The point is put forth that one of the scandals of the 20th century is the percentage of people in the world who do not know how to read or…