The author contends that a team approach involving trustees, administrators, faculty, and students is needed to understand the community college concept. (Editor/RK)

Discusses the importance of knowing the psychological environment of individuals in order to plan effective social change. (SB)

Something suspiciously like lethargy, the author says, has settled over teachers, blunting the thrust of attempted innovations. He offers a few ideas on improving teacher training and in-service. (Editor)

The author discusses a film which demonstrates the problem-solving approach to learning in practice; he takes the theory further, suggesting that the intellectual process underlying discovery learning--whether concerned with practical skills or literary criticism--is the capacity of adults to choose between alternatives. (Author/AJ)

Author developed a new procedure for his Instrumental Methods class in which students take an active role in their own education. (Author/RK)

Article focused on the problems music teachers have when they try to conduct new music. (Author/RK)

Discusses the procedures of conducting skill sessions in the teaching of physics to undergraduates. Indicates that the interim method can help students in acquiring necessary skills to solve problems but needs further improvement to become more useful. (CC)

Whole numbers written in spiral or triangular patterns with spaces occupied by prime numbers blocked in produces interesting visual patterns. Described is a game based on these patterns that may be played at many different levels. (JP)

The potential of the new social studies is seen as helping teachers in the inner-city in guiding students to utilize an analytical process in problem solving and establishing a classroom atmosphere fostering the process of critical inquiry. (Author/KM)

Presented are a series of word problems which give students the opportunity to use or develop problem solving skills. The problems are open-ended, with possible answers included. (JP)

Presented is an example of how a child adopted an incorrect method for solution to arithmetic sentences. Methods for detecting and correcting this behavior are discussed. (JP)

The purpose of this research was to determine the specific behaviors and cues which 104 assessors perceived as indicating the presence of psychological variables shown to be related to competent job behavior. Implications of the lack of correlation of cue utilization with assessor characteristics are discussed. (Author)

Reflective and impulsive children were instructed to hasten or delay their responses on a test of hypothesis-seeking and constraint seeking conceptual strategies. Latency of response data on pretesting, training, and immediate posttests showed that the attempts to hasten or delay responses were successful in changing response latencies. (ST)