Describes needed research and ongoing federal projects designed to provide information about alternatives for improving reading instruction for compensatory education students. (AA)

Discusses basic economic factors including resources, labor, and capital and discusses the flows that link them together in a recognizable geographical pattern. Suggests that geographers can contribute to better understanding of the spatial economy by undertaking research with scholars from other disciplines. (Author/DB)

Investigates political alienation among white and black adolescents, with particular regard to feelings of political inefficacy and political distrust. Recommends additional research on alienation and suggests that future alienation models be augmented with measures of psychological reactance as well as political reality perceptions. For journal…

Considers six types of cross-cultural training including general, specific, affective, cognitive, behavioral and self-insight, and examines the quantity and timing of the training and the attributes of the trainers and the trainees. Available from: Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers--The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903,…

Presents a theoretical review of work on sociocultural influences on achievement, focusing on a critical evaluation of the work of David McClellan. Offers an alternative conception of achievement motivation which stresses the role of contextual and situational factors in addition to personality factors. Available from: Transaction Periodicals…

To strengthen the research in adult education, tools and expertise from other disciplines should be utilized, research results disseminated, and research priorities set. Problems directly related to adult learning needs should be investigated on a priority basis. (EM)

Concludes that the concerned black scholar should not shy away from empirical research on the psychological affairs of Afro-Americans because of its attendant vulnerability to presuppositions and biases. Instead he should use a presuppositional infrastructure that is heuristically viable and ethnographically sensitive. (Author/AM)

Teachers and researchers must have similar, interdependent goals if they are to apply scientific knowledge to the problems encountered with the individual athlete. (JD)

Suggests that it is inconceivable that more schooling, other relevant variables being constant, will not produce more learning. The critical question for policy is: How large is the effect? (Author/AM)

A condensed review of the concepts of exploration and play is presented, followed by an outline of the major research findings. From this basis, gaps in the literature and new research directions are discussed. (Author/AM)

Success has been experienced in efforts to develop personality and interest profiles that correlate with satisfaction in given leisure activities. (MB)

Identifies four key conceptual problems in the uses and gratifications approach and notes issues that must be resolved in order for the formulation to be maximally productive.

Points out the need for a consumer focus in cross-national research to aid multinational marketers in developing relevant strategies. (KS)

Contends that naturalistic inquiry differs in function and form from objective inquiry in the positivist tradition and suggests that objective and naturalistic procedures are complementary in both science and communication processes. (MH)

The expectations and limitations of market research in higher education are reviewed, including its functions and roles, foci and types, constraints of current practice, promising developments, and needs. (MSE)