Research supported by the Office of Naval Research, Group Psychology Branch.

Proposes an approach to evaluation that counters negative bias, i.e., optimistic evaluation research. Procedures and advantages of this approach are discussed. (RAO)

OARTA (Organization Analysis with Results Using Transactional Analysis) is a way of thinking designed to resolve problems and reach goals through action-oriented research and analysis--a learning experience in which members of an organization can develop themselves and their organization. (ABM)

Inservice approaches to curriculum development for teachers of gifted students should emphasize the approach. Teachers should understand thinking skills so that they can help pupils think efficiently and then express those thoughts. (CL)

Described an instrument for developing ideas which will enable organizations to work out creative solutions to problems and issues. (Author/RK)

A High School course, General Studies Survival Curriculum, was designed to aid students in problem solving in a complex society. Areas of concern were psychology, consumer economics, environmental studies, law and society, religion and values, ethnic studies, applied aesthetics, creative studies, occupations and futurism. (JB)

The present study observed problem-solving styles with anagrams to see whether observing a model solve anagrams in a rigid or flexible way would affect the types of solutions the subjects used. (Author)

Outlines two models of the curriculum based on assumptions about the mind, intelligence, and thought; and examines the concept of "thinking." (Author/PG)

A professor of biology discovered that the people who are in literature rather than science, saw the same readings very differently and were looking for very different things like how nature writings expressed the author's views on nature, or what they communicated about the human experience of the living world. Further he visits London to see the…

The characteristics of educationally productive work are the learning processes involving (a) the formation of new ideas or innovations of existing ideas; (b) purposeful activity leading from one purpose to another and; (c) socialization of the ideas and the purposes. Suggests programs for education including: adult functional education,…

This paper attempts to show that the significant difference between the enthymeme and the dialectic syllogism rests on the similarity of purpose of both dialectic and rhetoric, and on the differences in the respondents to which they address themselves. To support this thesis, the author reviews several contemporary approaches which have dealt with…

In an investigation of search strategies, it was predicted that reflective children would have developmentally more mature problem-solving strategies than impulsive children, and the presence of these strategies would be found in both 6- and 8-year-old subjects. From a sample given the Matching Familiar Figures Test, half of the 20 boys and 20…