This paper proposes a new typology for understanding common research errors that expands on the four types of error commonly discussed in the research literature. Examples are presented to illustrate Type I and Type II errors, errors related to the interpretation of statistically significant and nonsignificant results respectively, with attention…

Suggests a possible research strategy for ensuring successful follow-up of respondents in longitudinal surveys. (TO)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is going to announce a major change in its patent policies that will allow qualifying institutions to be guaranteed in advance the royalties from faculty inventions that result from NSF projects. (Author)

A criticism of the emphasis on evaluation research as a means of measuring the effectiveness of simulation as a teaching method. (AK)

Explores strategies frequently utilized in developmental research laboratories and discusses the power of these strategies in isolating the major variables whose effects are age (or time)-related. The paper also provides information about the key developmental antecedents of age differences. (Author/WY)

Describes 3 proposals for facilitating socio-legal teaching and research: (1) a clearinghouse for data relating to legal phenomena; (2) a series of booklets to provide supplemental readings to law courses; (3) a law and social problems conference. (Author)

The first problem confusing results of reading research is one of definition, with all its attendant questions of generalization and replication. The second problem is one of inference and has at its heart a fundamental disjunction between the statistical model which most studies have assumed and the model which may in fact describe the underlying…

The author enumerates some criticisms of contingency management research that have been raised and reviews some studies of contingency management in order to clarify the strategy and tactics being followed and point out ways in which investigators have fallen short of their own criteria for sound research and valid conclusions." (Author/AA)

The difficulty an individual who has been denied access to library material faces in obtaining a remedy in the courts dictates that the library profession go on record against all forms of institutional censorship or unreasonable restrictions on use of library materials. (Author/JS)

Raises questions concerning the methods and procedures for obtaining class differences, interpretations of these differences, and the decision to intervene. (Author/MG)