A total of 118 upperclass students was divided into 22 work-teams in an introductory management course. Each participant was asked to use and evaluate a computer program, QUORUM, for diagnosing group problems and managing meetings. Problems found were a lack of group structure and poor participation. (CH)

Support teams for teachers can be an effective mechanism for professional development and problem-solving in the classroom. Principals must coordinate team efforts as teachers make major decisions. (CJH)

Describes ICONS (International Communication and Negotiations Simulation) which involves about 20 university teams, each one representing a different country in the scenario. The team members come from the fields of International Studies, International Communications Technologies and internationallly used foreign languages, and they communicate by…

Reviews literature on in-basket exercises, their use in assessment, and advantages in predicting managerial success. An account of the development of an in-basket exercise to assess job candidates covers design team establishment, exercise selection, task determination and material collection, scoring key development, and pilot study and field…

Presents a formula for relating teacher salaries to student achievement. Discusses the problems inherent in measuring student achievement and the importance of the principal's administrative training. Includes a chart and diagrams. (MD)

Describes the positive effects of collaborative teacher teams. Such team efforts can produce good research, provide professional development, and encourage greater collegial interaction. Includes reference list. (MD)

A student team learning technique, used with low achievers in a ninth grade world history class, improved the students' academic achievement, but did not improve their self-concepts. (RM)

Describes use of quality circles (QC)--small groups of employees who meet regularly and voluntarily to identify, solve, and implement solutions to work-related problems--as a form of participative decision making, highlighting QC concept, establishing a QC, introduction process, management support, benefits, evaluation, and shortcomings. Thirteen…

Describes a continuum of services to families in their homes to prevent the necessity of child placement. Presents four categories of services--general case management, the comprehensive social worker, the in-house team, and the intraagency team--to aid families who demonstrate psychological difficulty and resource deficits. (Author/JAC)

Teachers in several disciplines have a serious commitment to consumer education. Four models are offered to help them plan cooperatively for consumer education programs in their schools: (1) team approach to teaching, (2) two-teacher course, (3) coordinated content within several courses, and (4) informal coordination in a small school. (Author/AJ)

This paper considers four aspects of online communities. Design, mechanisms, architecture, and the constructed knowledge. We hypothesize that different designs of communities drive different mechanisms, which give rise to different architectures, which in turn result in different levels of collaborative knowledge construction. To test this chain…

The society of knowledge refers to the society marked with the principle which requires that knowledge, information and life-time learning hold a key to success in the world of IT technology. Internet, World Wide Web, Web Based Education and ever so growing speed of IT and communicational technologies have enabled the application of new modes,…

A theoretical model for collaborative inquiry as a research methodology in adult education has been proposed. The model, which likens collaborative inquiry to the process of organic gardening, depicts a sphere in motion where the cycles of collaborative inquiry revolve in continuous motion. In the center of the sphere is a collaborative self that…

A focused exploration of research presented at the International Academy for Information Management (IAIM) in 1997, this study applies the structuring of student teams recommended by Mennecke and Bradley (1997), adapts the roles, and extends structure to group meetings. Students enrolled in two sections of a required course in Database Systems…

This fact sheet offers definitions of the three types of spina bifida (spina bifida occulta, meningocele, and myelomeningocele), outlines their incidence, describes characteristics of individuals with spina bifida, and reviews educational implications. The fact sheet discusses the need for many children with myelomeningocele to learn to manage…