Surveys over 30 analyses, written in the years 1965-80, of the cost effectiveness of vocational training in the United Kingdom. Discusses the analyses' objectives and outcomes and emphasizes methodological developments regarding costing models, assessments of effectiveness, and procedures for relating, interpreting, and presenting evidence.…

A novel solution to the statistical problems in an evaluation of rare events is described. The significance of variations in the number of child homicides is analyzed in a binary time series of "active" months for monitoring future incidence and related systemic events. (Author/CM)

Recent developments in classroom climate research in West Germany are described. Special reference is made to classroom climate theory, climate structure, construction of climate scales, the role of climate as dependent and independent variable, and problems of research methodology. (Author/BW)

Discusses the problem of dichotomous-dependent variables in regression analysis in student attrition studies. Proposes a new method as an alternative to regression analysis. (Author/RC)

Discusses problems encountered in evaluating a mass drug education program including instrument selection, logistical constraints, and data analysis. Offers suggestions as to program evaluation improvement. (Author/RC)

To determine if the observed correlation between two variables can be "explained" by a third variable, a significance test on the partial correlation coefficient is often used. This can be misleading when the third variable is measured with error. This article shows how the problem can be partially overcome. (Author/BW)

Defines and explains organizational and conceptual problems encountered by practitioners of academic history today. An argument is presented for more systematic and self-conscious links between academic history and other academic disciplines that use historical data extensively. (Author/DB)

Using Project Synthesis as an example of qualitative synthesis research in science education, discusses the characteristics of such research: using research teams to provide perspectives and viewpoints; using variety of data sources; including a conceptual scheme for accomplishing synthesis; and concluding with, among others, an analysis of…

Curriculum theory and its function are defined, and its present state is discussed. A model which can be used to bring order to the field of curriculum theory is presented. (CJ)

Productive use of academic freedom is fostered under conditions that go beyond "freedom from" to a positive "freedom to." Academic "freedom to" is threatened by contemporary changes in the way teaching and research are planned, organized, financed, and implemented. (JOW)

This paper presents a description of four schools of thought on the nature of intelligence, some findings that have emerged from them, and an indication of how these findings reveal a common core of generalizations across the various schools. (Author/SJL)

The design and conduct of a national evaluation study is discussed, demonstrating that a control group may not provide the no-cause baseline information expected. Resolution of this problem requires reexamination of paradigms, research practices, and policies, as well as the underlying real world constraints and views that generate them. (PN)

Until experimenters can achieve some measure of control over access to information associated with their writing stimuli and outcome measures, research in composition will have a difficult time providing meaningful information on the unique effects on writing of such things as training programs, ethnicity, previous education, and sex. (HOD)

The paper reviews the recent research bearing on the single cause/multiple cause controversy in regard to reading disabilities. The inadequacy of the common practice of comparing a group of disabled readers with a control group is noted. (Author/SW)

Shows how evaluation design and federal involvement in Youth Employment Demonstration Projects unintentionally cause a negative appraisal. Indicates the problem stems from interaction of the contract research corporation, the educational research establishment, and the federal bureaucracy, rather than a specific methodology or bureaucratic…