Authors state that research and the systems approach are effective in mutually exclusive ways, differentially applicable in educational problem-solving, and thus complementary, suggesting that each can be studied using the methodology of the other. (Author)

Discusses instructional implications of research in business education, pointing out curricular and research needs. (AG)

The author argues that behavioral research within an institutional setting should be limited to investigations that can influence program development and decision making. (GW)

Primary purpose of schools, according to the author, is fostering intellectual development in all children. (MB)

Description of adoption-diffusion model used in Minnesota program to increase school administrators' awareness of mental health problems. (SP)

Educational research is seen as distinctive when knowledge claims are set in the context of education so that the relations between educative event, assertion, and evidence is clear. (Author)

Better ways are needed to utilize research findings and innovations in education. (JS)

Concern with the complexity of social problems and of public policy designed to cope with them has led to the identification of an interdisciplinary focus called the policy sciences. The concept includes both governmental and non-governmental decisions. The social sciences have provided structure with new methods such as operations research,…

Presented are implications for mathematics educators of the IEA International Study of Mathematics Achievement. Some implications for research which are discussed include the sampling procedures, the research design, the instruments, taxonomies, and the opportunity to learn" notion. (CT)

Discusses research taking the traditional cognitive skills -- reading and mathematics -- as the characteristics of pupils" to be considered, and asks how resources which produce these skills are allocated within one school district. (Author)

Proceddings of the Conference on "The Public Interest vis a vis Educational R & D, held at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia on July 16-17, 1969 with the cooperation of the U.S. Office of Education.

There are two reasons that ethnographic research in education produces good results but has a bad reputation. First is the way that scientific research has been used to justify the faults of educational institutions. Second is the inability of ethnographic research to be useful to educational practitioners. (Author/GC)

The social sciences tend to address easily quantifiable aspects of human life and produce statistical findings of value only to scholars and scientists. The Hite studies, which address ordinary human concerns and present their findings in a form easily understood by the general public, represent a model for the future. (Author/RM)