Individual program evaluation studies have the potential to accumulate of very valuable knowledge and practical wisdom. Drawing on "The Case for Pragmatic Psychology" (D. Fishman, 1999), this paper contends that much of this wisdom is being thrown away because of the positivist paradigm used in determining which knowledge should be…

Nonprofessional mental health workers in a program for early detection and prevention of school maladaptation in children were compared to similar controls on changes in attitude and clinical response style after 12 didactic training sessions and supervised field experience. Some combination of training, experience, and supervision increased aide…

A random sample of teachers, parents, police, mental health clinic workers, ministers, and high school students were interviewed and tested to ascertain their attitudes and knowledge regarding drugs. The findings are that drug users, in addition to being much more knowledgeable about drugs than nonusers, encounter quite different problems related…

If meaningful environmental education programs are to be developed, we must first find out how much people know about the total environment. Studies involving elementary and secondary school students, teachers, and community adults reveal not only a lack of knowledge but also a conflict between one's actions and his attitudes. A ten-question quiz…

Provides explanations of how creative thinking might take place and lists some characteristics of creative scientists. (CP)

Surveys of nutritional knowledge were made before and after a national nutrition education campaign in Czechoslovakia. The surveys were used as an integral part of the campaign as well as for evaluation of the campaign. (BL)

The process by which men achieve and relate to knowledge is discussed. (CK)

The importance of teaching documentation methodology as a regular part of the educational process is stressed. (MF)

Offers an overview of NAEP, a project designed to compile data for assessing and improving American education. (DR) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Program Description.

Although human knowledge has expanded rapidly, especially during the scientific era, man is far from the limits of knowledge about the human learning process itself. Greatly increased effort in this area of inquiry is required for survival. (JH)

Develops the "knowledge-as-status" perspective and its model to help describe what knowledge is and how knowledge changes over time. Concludes that knowledge in a particular field will progress or regress on the basis of reasons for and against the changes--reasons advanced and analyzed in a rhetorically epistemological way. (PD)

A study on the placement of handicapped children in New York City produced six conclusions, including that the city's Committee on the Handicapped scored well overall on a knowledge scale, but subgroups (except psychologists) indicated significantly lower knowledge of educational programing for handicapped children than a group of special…

Nonhandicapped preschool children (N=21) were interviewed about a variety of topics related to deafness and deaf people. Most of the preschoolers expressed at least minimal awareness of deafness. (Author)