Defines effective educational research in developing countries as that which influences educational aims. Descriptions of studies analyzing educational research effectiveness, recommendations for institutions doing educational research to increase their effectiveness, and recommendations for future effectiveness studies are included. (AM)

Examines 10 major conclusions summarizing the experience of one regional educational laboratory director and pertaining to the potential of educational research and development as a means of improving education. (RAO)

Describes some projects of the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development and discusses how that research attempts to effect change in the processes of teaching and learning. (SK)

Describes the aims and work of the Institute for Applied Studies in Educational Administration and Management at the North-Rhine-Westphalian Research Centre for Applied Studies in Education Science. Representative samples of projects are discussed in some detail. (Author/IRT)

Presents activities that involve students working as research and development scientists and exploring the world of glues-- how to make them, test them, and apply them to classroom projects. Enables students to gain technical knowledge and experience the excitement and responsibilities of being research scientists. (JRH)

A search of Dissertation Abstracts International, 1989-93, identified 196 doctoral dissertations concerned with rural education. Dissertations were assigned to one or more topics and subtopics of the Rural Education Research and Development Menu. "Overall effectiveness of rural schools" received 121 of 248 assignments, followed by human…

Evaluates theory and methodology underlying previous tests of the developmental proposal that self-concept becomes increasingly multidimensional with age. Develops and provides strong support for a new differential distinctiveness hypothesis, demonstrating that increasing distinctiveness--substantial age-related declines in correlations among…

Responds to commentary on evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in school psychology (this issue). A conceptual framework for future operation of the Task Force on Evidence-Based Interventions in School Psychology is presented within the context of identification, review, coding, analyzing and synthesizing, and disseminating research related to…

Describes a series of innovative research and development centers established at Boise State University to link the institution's academic work to critical issues in the region. Discusses the strategies guiding their development. (EV)

From 1988 to 1996, employment in high-technology industries shifted toward services. Growth in these industries accounted for all of the net increase in research and development employment in the United States. (SK)

With an eye to the other contributions in this volume on the special needs of adult students, the authors provide some recommendations for research and practice. (Author)

Describes how public policy establishing the University of California Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program helped to establish the state's environmental technology industry. The multidisciplinary "science-push" program generated economic development benefits including leveraged research funding and at least 200 new private…

Offers an agenda for the future of mass communication research. Suggests that equating mass communication with mass media invites the risk of economic success for mass media and societal failure for mass communication. Advocates conducting experiments in democratic behavior from a research and development context. (MG)

Describes Army's Project A attempt to model job performance in entry-level Army jobs. Describes research procedures used to develop basic array of up to 32 criterion scores for each of nine entry-level jobs and explains how this basic set of scores formed the starting point of attempt to model latent structure of performance in this population of…

Examines historical and contemporary linkages between Black children and social policy. Focuses on: contributions of Black children; the obscurity of Black children in social policy; cultural diversity and policy implementation; and prospects for the future. (RJC)