Heightens student awareness of ethical considerations inherent in advertising procedures, enabling students to articulate a position on an advertising issue without undue bias. (RL)

An analysis of sixth-grade students' problem solving found the process to be a series of behaviors for each of which an explanation can be elicited. Advocates that teachers use questioning and discussion techniques rather than a "right-wrong" approach to the evaluation of verbal arithmetic problems. (CP)

Advocates changing the role of secondary school science from one of theory verification and problem solving to the formulation and acceptance of hypotheses for observed phenomena. Provides an example of the procedure using Hooke's Law. (CP)

Described is the development of a simulation, or model of an existing congested pedestrian crossing situation by elementary school students in order to conduct trials of their solutions. (MN)

Questions regarding the type of teacher input and its effect on immediate and delayed performance in student problem-solving are examined. Specific guidelines for the classroom teacher are then suggested. (Author/MA)

The author recounts his experience in dealing with a child of normal intelligence but an unusually short attention span and physical restlessness. (JD)

This article outlines an inservice program for regular teachers dealing with learning disabled students, with emphasis upon identification of problems and ways of dealing with them. (JD)

Describes the problems of bias and stereotyping in teaching Soviet politics and suggests techniques for overcoming these problems. (JR)

A method for teaching students to solve complex algebraic equations is described. The method, which relies on sequentially reducing the complexity of the problem has been successfully used with secondary students and in remedial college courses. (SD)

Discusses the first two parts of a three-part course. The first part addresses the problems of the growing social complexity in classrooms, the alternative and competing value systems operating among school participants and the effects of teaching within an extended bureaucracy. The second part places those problems within the social contexts of…

Describes a self-awareness process that enables the teacher to teach cognitive coping rather than to discipline children. The process involves playing the Okazi Word Game, keeping a coping diary, the teacher coding his own behavior as well as the childrens using the Coping Behaviors Index, and task analysis. (Author/AM)

A legal methods course is built upon a teaching case extended over a number of weeks and requiring the students to adopt various litigation roles. The course is described, along with its relation to current trends and questions raised in legal education, particularly education in the first year of law school. (LBH)

Describes a simulated grouping exercise, carried out at a learning-disability conference in Texas, which revealed that grouping practices in 1985 may be flexible enough to allow teachers to select students, teaching techniques, and instructional materials. (MB)

Four informal assessment techniques to detect student mistakes in math, increase motivation, and improve achievement include the following: building models and generating word problems, thinking aloud, building mathematical sentences, and making mathematical sentences to answer questions in word problems. (DB)

Discusses the impact of computer programing instruction on cognitive skills and suggests two mechanisms of transfer--low road, from practice, and high road, from generalization. Previous research that tried to measure transfer from programing is reviewed, six categories in which transfer might occur are presented, and 71 references are provided.…