Describes communications skills for dealing with "teacher owned,""student owned," and mutual problems that result in classroom conflict and poor relationships between students and teachers. (GC)

Work centered on open-ended problem solving was developed. Activities for students aged 14 focused on measurement of length are described, with problems on pygmies and giants. (MNS)

Offers a six-step model for showing young children how to handle story problems. (FL)

Discusses two computer programs ("Billiard Ball" and "Taxman") that foster the development of higher-level thinking skills in children. Indicates that children develop such skills as planning ahead, analyzing, and using models/diagrams in the first program. Includes list of 26 programs with price, source, hardware needed, and…

A measure of problem identification skills, entitled the "Clinton Assessment of Problem Identification Skills for Instructional Supervisors" (CAPIS), was developed and validated by using the Cronbach and Muhl test validation paradigm. (PN)

Investigated the roles of successful task performance and achievement instructions on attitudes regarding the guided-design approach to instruction. Results revealed that students erroneously informed that they had done well on the task stated more positive attitudes. However, the achievement instructions did not have a statistically significant…

Observed fluctuations in problem-solving and classroom behaviors for 43 nonmedicated pupils who had attention deficits with hyperkinesis. Results showed that on problem-solving tasks except Digit Span, pupils performed better in the morning. In classroom behavior, all pupils exhibited more interference, off-task, noncompliance, and minor motor…

Examined the relationship between student (N=153) characteristics and career service requests, utilization, and evaluations. Results suggested that clients' problem-solving appraisal affects their satisfaction and continued use of career services, and vocational identity affects aid-seeking style at a career center. (WAS)

Examined relation between college students' (N=108) ability to solve simple ratio tasks (for example, their proportional reasoning patterns) and their rule-governed behavior with the balance beam. Also identified modifications in a set of rules for the balance beam tasks. Results and implications for science instruction are discussed. (JN)

Colleges and universities have survived a decade of financial exigency because of the resilience they developed. The primary problem to be confronted in the 1980s is still inflation, not declining enrollment, but inflation in the next ten years will not be as bad as recently. References and other resources on response to financial exigency are…

Good writing is seen as part of the problem-solving process and a device that can stimulate creative thought in students. Many ways of helping pupils use and refine writing skills in a mathematical context are discussed. It is felt teachers of mathematics need to see students' use of such skills. (MP)

A problem-solving network (flow chart) constructed for use in calculating titration is described. Points out that use of the network has greatly improved student confidence and skill in performing these calculations. (Author/JN)

How a computer randomly generates numbers to turn off lighted blocks on a graphics display is discussed. A computer program is given after reviewing a definition and two theorems and applying them to the problem. (MNS)

Kohlberg's interpretation of moral choice is criticized. The alternative view proposed locates Kohlberg's conception of moral choice as a stage in a larger process of moral deliberation that has a progressive structure. How deficiencies of the Kohlberg approach can be remedied is suggested. (Author/RM)

Two successful procedures for evaluating problem-solving performance in the classroom are shared. Five goals for teaching problem-solving are noted, followed by a discussion of evaluating a child's performance through joint use of: (1) analyzing written work; and (2) observing and questioning students. (MP)