In spite of the recognition accorded three-quarters of a century ago to the importance of the advanced study of reading, there still remain far too many individuals and institutions for whom reading, reading acquisition, and reading instruction are not yet established as areas of study worthy of the most serious, scholarly attention. The case for…

Summarized are proceedings of a 1976 meeting of the National Advisory Panel of VOTAP, the Vocational Training and Placement of the Severely Handicapped. It is explained that the advisory panel was formed to consider policy matters and technical direction of the project. Summarized are conference proceedings (including discussions of VOTAP project…

The profession of speech pathology and audiology is said to be comprised by service, training and research dimensions. (GW)

Methods for analyzing the multitrait-multimethod matrix are reviewed and the results of their application to a classic data set are compared. It is shown that different analysis methods can yield different validity conclusions, and that the results obtained are partly dependent on the subjective judgments of the users. (Author/RC)

In light of the questioning of the status of women taking place within Australian universities, the author presents a case history of a women professor from which she draws questions that should guide further investigations and recommendations regarding women in the university. (JT)

This legal case may answer some questions for lawyers on the limits to which desegregation may be carried under the backing of the Brown decision, yet it raises several specific questions that educators and educational researchers ought to address concerning factors that contribute to effective integration. (AM)

Although important progress has been made in educational evaluation during the past decade new problems believed to be more serious threaten the progress that has been made. These problems are said to be a mixture of logistics and politics and are in large part an outgrowth of the increasing pluralism of American society. (Author/AM)

Addressing the problems of cross-research analysis, two Federal Interagency Panels have recommended that researchers: 1) use more complete definitions of the variables used in their study; 2) be more precise in their descriptions of populations; and 3) insure that their methodology and research lends itself to a comparability review. (BJG)

From a special section, "Adapted Physical Education. Also see AA 501 888, AA 501 890 through AA 501 894.

Paper sponsored by a grant from the Wisconsin Association for Mental Health.

This report, one of 10 prepared in 1980 for the Steering Committee for the Five-Year Research Plan of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), was prepared to address the state of the science of nutrition research and to relate the programs of the NICHD to present and future needs in nutrition research. Specifically,…

Evaluation research should be viewed as the source of knowledge on two levels: (1) how evaluation studies utilize results, and (2) how the knowledge that was evaluated is utilized. The purpose of this document is to systematically examine the literature pertinent to the utilization of evaluation results. The impetus for legitimization of…