Panel of nationally recognized experts in group-counseling research, practice, and training discusses major obstacles confronting advancement of research on groups and suggests ways to improve meaningfulness and validity of future research. Presents recommendations of Research Committee of the Association for Specialists in Group Work for…

Points out some of the difficulties involved in carrying out reading research, emphasizing the importance of simplification. (ARH)

This introduction to a special section on psychobiological studies of stress and coping discusses the problems of interpreting and integrating information on stress reactivity derived from a combination of behavioral and physiological measures. (PCB)

A recurrent problem in assessment work is to determine the degree of match for a client score profile to some known prototypic group patterns. It is more accurate to conceptualize the "known" group pattern as a range of values. Interval-banded profile analysis represents a generalization of the method of centours to this problem.…

Analyzes selected critical issues concerning participatory research in adult education. Defines participatory research and looks at its development. Links this with the significance and rationale of the participatory approach in adult education and focuses on the problems of this approach. (JOW)

Reviews research on teaching and makes an appeal for involving classroom teachers as field workers and partners in applied pedagogical research. Covers difficulties involved with such an approach, the need for replication, teacher training and the problem of generalization. (JDH)

Presents a statistical technique that yields consistent estimates for censored samples. Application of this technique to models related to selection bias and the presence of depression indicate that the prevalence of this disorder in mental health center populations approaches 44 percent rather than the 25 percent from a censored sample.…

Summaries are presented of the activities of 16 committees on the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Branch (MRDD) of the National Institute of Child Health. Committees are organized to guide future research efforts in biomedical issues, behavioral and social sciences, and the interface between biomedical and behavioral/social…

The paper reviews objections to meta-analysis in psychotherapy. It is suggested that claims to inclusiveness and objectivity are not supported by the evidence, and that for most purposes the simplistic scoring systems of meta-analysis are not only useless, but may be counterproductive. (Author/CL)

Recent child language intervention literature was analyzed to determine the content and consistency of subject descriptions. The amount and type of descriptive information varied widely both within and among journals. Suggestions were developed to describe language-disabled children in intervention studies. (Author/CL)

Focuses on anomalies in the O'Neil (1980) data on the factor structure of the Career Factor Checklist. Charges that critical errors compromise the conclusions regarding CFC valididty, and notes errors in analyses based on CFC scores. (JAC)

Raises and attempts to resolve some significant and controversial issues in the design of family therapy outcome studies. Addresses the issue of clinical relevance and critiques intermodel comparative outcome studies. Discusses outcome criteria, with a recommendation for determining whether or not a family therapy has had a desirable effect. (BH)

Analyzes the attrition dilemma and reviews the methods used to compensate for data loss. Argues that attrition is not utlimately a problem of bias but a problem of lack of information. Offers a reformulation that integrates single-case studies with traditional group comparison methodology in an attempt to find optimal causal relations of…

Characteristics of autism research were examined in the survey of a subset of studies (1971-1982). Results indicated inadequacies of subject selection procedures and omission of important descriptive information. The authors stress the need for increased use of objective, quantitative measures of diagnosis and assessment of intellectual abilities.…

This study demonstrates that those who, in social surveys, misreport their voting behavior in presidential elections are, attitudinally and demographically, similar to validated voters. It also shows how error arising from such misreporting may have biased prior research on nonvoters and on the voting behavior of Blacks and young people.…