Reports a study investigating the relationship between cognitive styles and the preschool child's use of play areas in nursery schools, using daily observation and two tests of analytic perceptual ability. (ED)

The authors of this paper attempt to extract from the literature on teacher questioning behavior specific limitations of past research in this area and to provide recommendations for future research. Seven types of limitations and associated recommendations are presented. (PEB)

This article discusses some of the methodological problems involved in determining indices for the level of education in the Soviet Union. (KM)

Large-scale cases of child sexual abuse in settings such as day care centers have received a great deal of public and legal attention. This attention has complicated attempts to research the effects of such victimization on child development. Described in this paper are difficulties encountered by a Michigan group investigating the effects of…

The paper addresses three questions: (1) What are the most successful techniques for measuring the effects of early childhood development (ECD) programs? (2) What are likely trends of future evaluations? and (3) How can future trends take into account recent research in developmental psychology? Predictions are made on the basis of trends in ECD…

When comparing the DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) and curriculum conference methods of curriculum development, one finds that the product goals of the two methods differ but the process goals are similar. Both seek to generate information from a select group on which to base curriculum development, but the end product of DACUM is a chart that…

An attempt to replicate a study of the accuracy of test results of medical laboratories was unsuccessful. Limitations of the obtained data prevented the research from having satisfactory internal validity, so no formal report was published. External validity of the study was also limited because the systematic random sample of 78 licensed…

After outlining feminist theory (conceptualization and characteristics), a study examined attitudes toward issues having to do with feminist scholarship and the fields of journalism and communication, particularly assessing the validity of the conventional wisdom that women are advised against doing feminist research. The subjects were a purposive…

As the field of sociolinguistics has emerged, its terminology, which like many other emerging disciplines contains many neologisms and new usages, has sometimes been called insensitive. This reaction may interfere with serious examination of the field's content. Areas of disagreement or dispute include terms used for the speech of black…

This report focuses on the more than 7 million American children who suffer from mental disorders. It was written in response to a Congressional request for development of a national plan delineating how the National Institute for Mental Health would expand basic, clinical, and services research in the area of child mental health, and also…

There are times in survey research when missing values need to be estimated. The robustness of four variations of regression and substitution by mean methods was examined using a 3x3x4 factorial design. The regression variations included in the study were: (1) regression using a single best predictor; (2) two best predictors; (3) all available…

This paper focuses on difficulties and possibilities of theory and research on emotional attachment in humans and problems associated with exclusive reliance on the Strange Situation procedure in cross cultural research. After specifying emotional consequences of qualitatively different attachment histories and appropriate ways of assessing their…

This book presents six papers on Latino migrant workers and recent Indochinese refugees in the United States, most of which focus on problems of fieldwork. The book's three sections, "Migrant Workers,""Indochinese Refugees" and "Research Summaries and Reports," each contains two papers and an introduction. (1)…

As the number and scope of school-based clinics grow, interest in their evaluation increases. Evaluation of a comprehensive school-based clinic program in New York City revealed methodological issues in evaluation of these programs. The first issue involves program goals and objectives. Even before program implementation, the evaluator should…