Criticizes some methods used to derive educational models and offers suggestions for improvement. (Author/CK)

In rebuttal to a paper by Truax and Lister, the authors stated that the lack of quality in the research outweighs any influence the investigators may have gained as researchers. The research should not be used to justify revamping of the training, selection, and personnel utilization of rehabilitation personnel. (Author/CG(

this essay attempts to integrate certain inferences from people processing research with certain other inferences from what might loosely be termed micro-theory through the use of the rather unusual medium of panel survey research data." The topic is the appropriate way in which to conceive of the relationships between organizations and their…

Suspicion and hostility of the ghetto population is cited as the reason for low return on research surveys. It is argued that survey research should be more closely articulated in goals and methods with the population being studied--a strategy called intervention research." (DM)

Outlines some methodological problems inherent in the study of Coleman, Hoffer, and Kilgore (1982) on achievement in public, Catholic, and private high schools.(MP)

Examines measurement scales used in different studies of the relationship between masculinity, femininity, or androgyny, and self esteem. Suggests that findings of a high positive association between masculinity and self-esteem may be due to the fact that the most commonly used measurement scales do, in fact, endorse masculine characteristics.…

The purposes of this article are, first, to argue that analyses based on level of treatment implementation can lead to biased estimates of treatment effects, and second, to discuss alternatives to this approach. (PN)

Argues that standard research methods are the only ethically responsible means for assessing the efficacy of family therapy, that they have provided practical data, and that there are insufficient grounds for divorce between "new epistemology" and standard research. (WAS)

Methodology texts argue and many researchers may believe that normality of distribution is a sufficient condition for inferring that interval scale measurement has been achieved. It has also been argued that ordinal measurements cannot be normally distributed. Counter examples and a general result show such reasoning to be fallacious. (Author/RH)

Argues that although Lane and Pearson ("Merrill-Palmer Quarterly," v28, n3, p317-37, 1982) provide an important review, critique, and attempt at integration across paradigms used to study the development of attention, a number of genuine problems still remain to be addressed in this area. (MP)