Great Decisions, a project of the Foreign Policy Association, is an annual, nationwide program involving local citizens in discussions of national foreign policy. (MS)

High school underachievers are aided in redirecting their self-images by use of group discussion seminars. (DB)

Author asserts that in a training situation maximum involvement is necessary to the achievement of maximum learning. In situations where films are used the author discusses various ways that groups, which maximize involvement, maximize learning. (Editor/LF)

Meetings between black unwed expectant schoolgirls and black and white adoptive parents and social workers are discussed. (NH)

Discussion is a useful educational technique. However, both students and professors must learn to develop impersonal attitudes during debating sessions, and students must learn not to expect to find final answers in a classroom forum. (CK)

This study investigated the extent to which empathy, self actualization, and leadership in group discussion situations would predict the criterion of who would be hired as resident fellows (RF). Since leaderless group discussion did differentiate with some degree of "accuracy" it promises to be an excellent future device for use with RF selection.…

A private firm uses a psychological motivational program to turn underachieving adolescents into capable young adults. (MF)

A conversation between three demonstration teachers.

Assessed effects of intensive problem-solving training on outcomes related to counseling. Undergraduates participated in problem-solving workshop. Results indicated that training influenced the quality of response, but training did not increase the number of subjects' alternatives. (Author)

Fifteen fifth graders in a dilemma discussion group which viewed films that sought answers to dilemmas and then discussed possible solutions were subsequently found to be more generous (altruistic) than their control group counterparts. Implications for educators, psychologists, and researchers are discussed. (NEC)

Describes and gives sample of using Guided Design as an instructional strategy for English-as-a-second-language classes with two main objectives: (1) teaching subject matter, and (2) teaching decision-making skills. Goals achieved include using class time for speaking, freeing the teacher to observe individual student errors, and planning later…

Describes a series of group meetings for prospective adoptive couples in which participants explored issues related to rearing adopted children with special needs. Results of informal evaluation by participants are reported. (RH)

Two teaching methods, self-paced reading and self-paced reading and discussion groups, were investigated to determine their effects on the behaviors of college students taking a course in human sexuality. (JD)