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This is a model to find out if a problem-solving process can be specified clearly enough to be modeled by a computer, thus providing a simulation which can be used to train preservice teachers to use this process to solve classroom problems. In the model, the teacher trainee must respond to eight successive questions which form a strategy to analyze the problem defined. The answer to each question must be consistent with the trainee's goal, that is, the solution to his problem. After answering the questions, the trainee records the questions and his answers on a computer. The proof of his success is the acceptance of the answers by the computer since they are monitored for consistency. If the proposed solution is accepted by the computer, it is then evaluated according to its plausibility. If the solution passes this criterion, it can then be put into practice. This model is currently inoperative since the consistency criterion must be defined operationally for the computer. (PD)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert