"Winston" is a pseudonym for an international business institute representing a dozen different cultures, which the institute strives to respect equally. Students studying at the institute spend two months of a 24-month program studying abroad. To facilitate the international portion of the program, each country where students are…

Many researchers have paid attention to the potentiality and possibility of the shared mental model because it enables teammates to perform their job better by sharing team knowledge, skills, attitudes, dynamics and environments. Even though theoretical and experimental evidences provide a close relationship between the shared mental model and…

Synergized educational experiences can be used as effective modes of presenting content in the area of industrial arts education, and new concepts in learning and laboratory design will begin to illuminate the concept of synergy. Research in conjunction with this study provides additional evidence regarding effectiveness of group educational…

When you think of yourself as the initiator and "architect" of your classroom the shift to open education is less threatening. (Editor)

Experiment revealed that the number of arguments had a more significant effect on individual shifts than did interpersonal comparison. (SP)

This article concerning structuring in group counseling discusses a type of structuring which allows a great deal of freedom and permissiveness within the group and at the same time provides a framework within which the group can begin to function. (Author)

It was concluded that participation may be associated with favorable role attitudes through different motive-attainment mechanisms in the group decision-making process. (Author)

Study sought (1) to manipulate communication quality in problem-solving groups, (2) to determine whether groups actually experienced communication of varying quality, and (3) to determine whether groups experiencing high quality communication produced a high quality product.'' (Author)

Author compares and analyzes the objectives and methods of T groups and discussion ( learning'') groups; he finds the latter more open, with reality less centered in the life of the group.'' (Author/SP)

The author describes the group interview, the meeting of recruiter and students for what could be an honest, objective, and stimulating challenge. (Author)

Describes a series of strategies that enabled a nationwide government program, the Teacher Corps, to survive, despite formidable external and internal constraints, and suggests some general patterns that may apply to other cases. Comments by Richard A. Graham and Roland L. Warren. (Author)

This is an example of how author experimented in systematically using his understanding of T Group phenomena to conceptualize and to point to a sequence of phases which might be optimum for a particular group in accomplishing its learning objectives, and illustrates one technique for shifting group's focus from one issue to next. (Author)