Describes a project which integrates subject matter with decision-making techniques and encourages students to become knowledgeable, interested, and sensitive decision makers. Journal available from Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies, P.O. Box 6637, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19149. (Author/DB)

Challenges the belief that knowledge of economics will help students make more intelligent decisions in their roles as citizens. Questions the usefulness of current research by economic educators. Urges that the tools of economic analysis which they teach about should also be used in the study of economics teaching itself. (Author/AV)

Recommends that projected growth in the technical-vocational sector of education in the Soviet Union be accompanied by qualitative improvements in areas of political socialization, cultural transmission, and technical development. (Author/DB)

Relationships between cognitive style, conceptual tempo, and problem solving strategies of 81 fifth-grade students were examined. While cognitive style was not related to strategies used in problem solving, conceptual tempo influenced time spent and quality and quantity of questions asked. Effective training techniques were also described.…

Describes a planning system to meet the training requirements of specialized project personnel. This training planning system provides for an organized assessment of personnel training needs and the use of all available training media. It also provides mechanisms to document acquired training and to develop new training resources. (EM)

A project carried out in Peterborough County, Canada, resulted in the systematic development, implementation, and evaluation of a K-10 mathematics program and a steady increase in achievement among students in the county. (SK)

Three training programs for girl-shy males were designed. The effectiveness of a response-acquisition treatment was compared with a cognitive self-statement modification treatment, a combination of these two, and a waiting-list control group. The results indicated that subjects trained in cognitive self-statement modification showed significantly…

Single-subject reversal designs were used in teaching elderly nursing-home residents to change dependency behavior and to reacquire and maintain self-feeding skills. Fast control of self-feeding was obtained. Results are discussed. (Author)

Problem-solving ability has been assessed within the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners through the use of patient management problems (PMPs) in both medical and surgical areas. It is shown that the highest marks in PMPs are being achieved by students who arrive at the correct diagnosis without accumulating excessive information and…

School can promote acceptance of feelings and ideas and help involve people in meaningful inter-personal relationships with clear reality based communication. It is the school social worker that must spear head this movement. (Author)

Investigates high school student exposure to education about state government by examining student enrollment, course offerings, textbooks, and curriculum guides. Concludes that there is a need for more extensive treatment of state government politics and political behavior, and less coverage of details of institutional structures. (Author/DB)

Discusses problems encountered in France in developing a labor force skilled in areas needed by industry and in coordinating the supply and demand of these skills. Conclusions are that vocational training research must be promoted on a systematic basis and that socioeconomic factors and worker attitudes must be considered in addition to technical…

Briefly examines a junior high school correspondence course in social studies. Ten specific skills were introduced at a fairly simple level in the first ten lessons and then repeated at a more complex level in the remaining lessons. Four examples of the skill development components are given. (Author/JK)

Within the counselor-as-teacher frame of reference, the concept of behavioral contracting is examined. Basic issues are developed and evaluated. An illustrative contract between an adolescent and his parents is presented. (Author)

This article defines competency-based education for consultant trainees and describes some of the more common approaches used in identifying, organizing, classifying, and evaluating competencies that training programs seek to develop in consultants-in-training. The differences in the delivery systems for CBE and more traditional training models…