It is concluded, on the basis of this study, that respondents who are poor and/or of racial or ethnic minority backgrounds require unconventional rules of survey procedure. (Author/AM)

Three tentative conclusions emerge from this study: (1) interviewer effect operates only when questions treat opinions and attitudes, (2) black respondents are more likely to identify "racially sensitive" problems as areas of high concern when speaking to black interviewers, and (3) militant blacks appear uninfluenced by the white…

Field research in the gay world is shaped by two factors: the secrecy of many gay groups, and the stigmatization both of gays and of researchers who study them. Some relevant strategies and tactics of field research are discussed. (Author/AM)

It is possible to devise ingenious means for adapting basic methodological techniques to meet exigencies of the research situation while still meeting the requirements for the collection of valid data. (Author/AM)

Describes development of a computer-assisted instructional tool which provides linkages among the language of college students, the conceptual terminology of sociology, and the classification descriptors used by reference librarians and professional indexers and abstractors. The computer system helps students to focus their research questions and…

Family socioeconomic status, ability, high school curriculum, scholarship receipt, age, race, marital status, enrollment status, employment status, and type of college attended were examined. The importance of these factors varied widely with year of college completed. Results demonstrated that these factors cannot be molded into a single equation…

The financial aspects of educational programs are discussed in this commentary on the evaluation of the Emergency School Aid Act. Budget and expenditure data must be examined closely when evaluating educational programs. (JKS)

Examines fourteen representative nonverbal behavior studies and identifies three significant conceptual problems. Proposes a new framework for nonverbal behavior theory development. (MH)

Kaufman and Sweet's article on the regression analysis of unbalanced factorial designs (EJ 111 767) is reviewed. A number of errors are noted, and relevant literature is cited. (GDC)

This article outlines a data collection model designed by Riffel and associates. This model provides information which may assist district and school level personnel in facilitating the desegregation process. (Author/AM)

The author argues that criminal justice professionals have failed in most cases to critically evaluate programs introduced into the criminal justice system. This problem is discussed in the context of pretrial diversion, an increasingly popular innovation in criminal justice. (Author)

Evaluation data frequently do not confirm program administrators' and recipients' perceptions of benefits; positive perceptions will occur without regard to actual behavioral and cognitive social psychological theory. Implications are drawn for program planning and for evaluation methodology. (Author/CTM)

This paper addresses itself to issues related to data collection in survey research with a community population. Areas discussed relate to practical human problems in conducting a community survey of a stratified random sample of people 65 years of age and over in New York City. (Author)

The story of the national evaluation of the Follow Through program mirrors the difficulties in trying to evaluate a complex social program that changed its community service orientation to a strategy of planned variation of early childhood programs. (Author/MLF)

Discusses recent protest concerning the conduct of survey research. (SL)