Teaching design involves more than instruction on manipulative skills of using tools and making drawings. It involves teaching students to use their minds and hands to solve problems. Teacher preparation and a change in student attitudes are required. (Contains 22 references.) (JOW)

Techniques for teaching linear regression are provided. Discussed are leverage and the hat matrix in simple regression, residuals, the notion of leaving out each observation individually, and use of this to study influence on fitted values and to define residuals. Finally, corresponding diagnostics for multiple regression are discussed. (MNS)

Discusses using the problem-solving approach to teaching vocational agriculture. Reviews the literature and the models that have evolved since the 1930s. (JOW)

A survey of accounting educators (n=97) to determine the teaching techniques they use and how they compare to those used in their undergraduate experience found that lectures and problem solving still predominate. Results also indicate that a wider range of techniques are used and the trend is for students to take a more active learning role. (JOW)

Argues that all students be taught how to negotiate and mediate and learn the role of the mediator. Three steps in managing conflicts are examined: establishing a cooperative context; creating intellectual conflicts; and establishing a peer-mediation program. The theory and research underlying these steps are reviewed. (GLR)

Describes a study that investigates the difficulties students have with word problems and aims to find out what can be done to help students achieve some success with word problems while working independently. Concludes that a problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics and word problems is beneficial. Contains 20 references. (ASK)

Discusses issues regarding problem solving environments via problem posing. Recognizes the importance of the teacher's questions; language characteristics of problems; problem structure and feature; solution structure; teacher's questions used before, during, or after solving a problem; and introducing problem-posing questions in mathematics…

Examines the problem-based perspective and the pedagogy of problem-based learning. Outlines alternative philosophical perspectives for professional education. (SK)

Shares a series of problems designed to provide students with opportunities to develop an understanding of applications of the definite integral. Discourages Template solutions, solutions in which students mimic a rehearsed strategy without understanding as the variety of problems helps prevent the construction of a template. (Author/ASK)

Performs analysis on a number of articles published between 1985 and 1995 describing experimental research into the effectiveness of a wide variety of teaching strategies for science problem solving. Identifies 22 articles describing 40 experiments that met standards for meta-analysis. Indicates that few of the independent variables were found to…

Hibbard describes the process used by students at Millersville University to build a human-powered submarine for entry in an international submarine competition. Edwards discusses the Design Technology Exhibit held at Lu Sutton Elementary School, the purpose of which was to challenge students to design a useful structure and provide them with the…

Offers a progressive series of eight lessons designed to guide students in generating questions, creating investigations, and finding answers. (AIM)

Describes design technology, a process used to solve problems and extend human capabilities, used in a third-grade classroom to guide students in problem solving. Includes guidelines that helped the design technology concept work. (JOW)

Poses several questions about problem solving and provides six reasons that support how problem solving enhances the development of numeracy and mathematical thinking. (ASK)

Discusses a program that offers students a phenomenon-oriented environment expressed in the fundamental concepts and language of chemical engineering such as mass and energy balancing, phase equilibria, reaction stoichiometry and rate, modes of heat, and species transport. (CCM)