Recent research in social work education is analyzed in terms of (1) issues identified, such as conceptual clarity of terms, validity, reliability, and outcome or process measures; (2) categories of evaluative procedures in which distinctions between data are made; and (3) general direction of social work education research. (Author/LBH)

Science educators are encouraged to adopt teaching techniques to help children learn to solve problems through inquiry or discovery. Included are several sample problems and method for finding other appropriate science related problems. (SL)

Discussed is the tendency in science to challenge obvious explanation for observed phenomenon. Ten examples are given where the initial obvious explanation was subsequently shown to be totally incorrect. Four examples that relate to biomedicine are presented in detail. (SL)

Recently, a number of people from different spheres of education attended a conference at the TES to discuss what impact the Bullock Report had made during its first year. To conclude this three part series, the authors reported on the conference and reflected on some of the issues raised in the discussion. (Editor/RK)

Article considered the problems inherent in data collection and information dissemination as a result of the development of computerized personal information systems. (Author/RK)

Rather than examining the relative effectiveness of various socially organized learning situations, this study addresses students' beliefs about the effectiveness of such learning environments for them as individuals, as well as their preferences, finding that while whites see little advantage to be gained by working peer group settings, blacks…

Examines some possible trends for the future in terms of understandings, skills, and attitudes that learners need presently as well as in the years to come. (Author/RK)

Describes the establishment and activities of the Spartanburg County Elementary School Administrators Study Council, which was organized through a cooperative effort of the University of South Carolina and seven school districts in Spartanburg County. (JG)

The hypothesis tested was that the evaluations and affective responses which accompany ongoing behavior may operate as reinforcers and punishers, thus exercising control over the persistence of those behaviors. Results indicate potent systematic effects due to the differing content of such evaluations and the associated affect or affective tone.…

Thirty-five students from all ability levels in the first and second year of secondary school were interviewed to determine their understanding of appropriate application of number operations. Results of the interviews are classified into five different levels of understanding. (DT)

The personnel administration function is discussed as a challenge issue for the college president. The president must be persuaded to view the problems of academic human resource management as significant ones for him to consider. (LBH)

In this paper, we will discuss the way various features of consciousness interact with each other and with cognition, specifically, the cognition of mathematical reasoning and problem solving. Thus we are interested in how consciousness and cognition "work," in a somewhat mechanistic way, rather than in larger philosophical questions about…

This is a qualitative study of 22 9th graders performing generalizations on a task involving linear patterns. Our research questions were: What enables/hinders students' abilities to generalize a linear pattern? What strategies do successful students use to develop an explicit generalization? How do students make use of visual and numerical cues…

In its empirical part this paper establishes a general weak understanding of the process of applying a mathematical model. This is also evident in the way teachers regard the application of alternative sharing in their own problem solving and in relating to children's answers. The theoretical part analyses problems that are considered as…

This book is a guide to the development of mathematical talent in students in grades K through 8. The first chapter is on developing mathematical promise and considers characteristics of students who are mathematically promising, the goals of mathematics instruction, how to find and/or create good problems, models for increasing the numbers and…