Reviewed are the technical problems in the work of Grill and Bartel who attempted to demonstrate that a bias exists in the Grammatical Closure subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities against speakers of nonstandard English. (SBH)

Reviews topics discussed during the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting held in Washington, D.C. Topics included: the equal rights amendment, laetrile, nuclear radiation hazards, sociobiology, and various science topics. (SL)

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)

Reports the University of New York at Albany has been charged with violations of federal and state regulations for not obtaining approval of an ethics committee to conduct research on human subjects. (SL)

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 where institutions such as universities agree with gatekeepers that proposed sensitive and critical research would be inappropriate researchers must create autonomous positions from which to conduct their research. (Author/AM)

During a nationwide survey, various perplexing methodological problems were confronted; breakthroughs were made by synthesizing ethnographic and survey methods. Youthful minority men and women were recruited, trained, and given collegial responsibility for survey conceptualization, instrument development, coding and data interpretation. This…

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.

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)

Presents a rationale for developing a social psychology of computing, and provides some historical background on research concerned with the impact of technology on behavior. Describes the articles in this issue, which are said to suggest, as a whole, that computer technology amplifies existing social conditions. (KH)

Randomized response measurement techniques have been proposed to overcome subject unwillingness to answer embarrassing or threatening questions truthfully. Many of the applications to date have dealt with health-related issues. This article demonstrates the application of the unrelated question randomized response design with one such question.…

Describes two teaching simulations which can be used to introduce students to problems encountered in field research. The first simulation deals with gaining access to a research setting, while the second concerns some ethical difficulties which may potentially confront a field researcher. A number of reasons for using simulations in preference to…

Shows how an introductory social science statistics course can improve the treatment of regression assumptions, the problem of outliers, and the important idea that some outliers have greater influence than others through the use of Anscombe's now classic 1973 example and Cook's (1977; 1979) extension of the idea of influence. (JDH)

Describes the nature and consequences of liberally or improperly applying the traditional reading research methodology and provides an argument for tempering judgments about the relative contributions that experimental studies make to the professional literature in reading. (SKC)