This document reports the experiences of organizational development specialists and compares organizational development with two other change strategies. Organizational development aims to increase the effectiveness of task groups in schools by teaching them how to communicate clearly, use systematic methods to solve problems, draw out and use…

THIS RESEARCH ATTEMPTED TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF DEVELOPING TEST INSTRUMENTS TO DETECT HOW LIMITED VARIABLES IN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES AFFECT STUDENT BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT. THE EXPERIMENTAL HYPOTHESES DEVELOPED FOR THE STUDY WERE CONCERNED WITH IDENTIFYING AND DEFINING INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES OPERATING IN THE REALM OF SCIENCE EDUCATION.…

THE EFFECT OF ART EDUCATION ON IMPROVING THE ATTITUDES AND CULTURAL AWARENESS OF DISADVANTAGED YOUTH WAS STUDIED IN THIS PILOT PROGRAM. THE CALIFORNIA TEST OF PERSONALITY AND THE CHILDREN'S PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE WERE ADMINISTERED BEFORE AND AFTER A SPECIAL, 12-MONTH ART PROGRAM TO 25 CHILDREN (AGES 8-12) FOR DATA ON PERSONAL AND SOCIAL…

Discussion groups met to address the following seven problems prominent in the young people's and children's departments of Wisconsin libraries: (1) decline of hardback circulation; (2) stealing and vandalism; (3) facilitating user self-help without fragmenting collections; (4) recruitment and orientation of volunteers; (5) censorship; (6) staff…

The author discusses findings of a content analysis of readers and texts on social problems and identifies questions raised by the task force which performed the analysis. The purpose of the study was to ascertain the nature of social problems courses and to determine if such courses are appropriate as undergraduate "first courses" instead of…

Five experiments are reported which relate to sex-role identification in problem solving. Instruments used on high school and college students include a booklet of 20 problems that had illustrated sex differences during an earlier study, the Terman-Miles M-F Test to measure sex-role identification, an open-ended personal history questionnaire and…

The REP contract with the National Institute of Education was through November 30, 1975. Under the contract terms the REP was to develop a set of RFD Strategies to strengthen the problem-solving capacities of rural school systems, communities, classrooms, and families. Defined as community, school, learner, support agency, and family centered,…

Ninety-six males participated in four-man teams involved in a complex decision making task. Subteams with differing functions but equal rank were established. Subteams either were or were not physically separated during the tasks. Group cohesiveness was not effected, but subteam task satisfaction differences were greatest when subteams remained…

Eighteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and critically analyzed. Seven of the reports deal with general instructional concerns (feedback on homework, error patterns, teacher-student interaction, reading strategies, teacher effectiveness, school attendance, and learning environment), four with topics in mathematics…

This paper outlines the syntactic structures which represent a stage in the cognitive development of children, and focusses on an aspect of cognitive development known as conservation. The cognitive components of conservation are presented as the primordial base for the set of syntactic structures which map or mirror them. Piaget proposed four…

This article has demonstrated the value of intuitive-reflection social science instruction at the introductory college level. Personal experience suggests that much the same results would occur among high school students. (Author/RK)

Among the ways that black educators can contribute to effective educational policy making is by becoming administrators in public school systems, and by becoming sources of expertise who can provide consultation to administrators, and by becoming members of policy making bodies such as school boards. (Author/AM)

Laws and regulations which are the arms of the law, have become solution surrogates, substitutes for mutual citizen and community interaction toward problem identification and resolution. The time is ripe to discourage the passage of more legislation and to encourage the recision of some. (Author)

Outlines strategies for environmental education curriculum development to focus on the causes of environmental crises and to develop problem-solving skills for dealing with these crises. Five major concepts are discussed for kindergarten through grade 12, and sample skill developing and values clarification activities are included. (KC)

Defines skills used in the reasoning process: problem solving, classification and organization, making reasoned judgments, and researching a subject. Lists Vermont's basic competencies in reasoning and notes that teachers and the community must accept the competencies of reasoning as legitimate educational concerns. (KC)