Introduction: This survey aimed to investigate German ambulatory physicians' opinions about mandatory continuing medical education (CME) and CME resources shortly before the introduction of mandatory CME in 2004. Methods: A structured national telephone survey of general practitioners and specialists was conducted. Main outcome measures were…

This paper reports on an investigation of podcasting as a tool for honing pronunciation skills in intermediate language learning. We examined the effects of using podcasts to improve pronunciation in second language learning and how students' attitudes changed toward pronunciation over the semester. A total of 22 students in intermediate German…

Despite a growing concern about gangs in Britain, academic research that focuses on gangs remains scarce. Drawing on data from the ESRC-funded ethnographic research YOGEC (Youth Gangs in an English City) project, this paper explores the negotiation of space and place by young people living in inner-city areas affected by gangs. Using a combination…

The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the environmental factors that influence an undergraduate music education major's investment in instrumental techniques courses taught by a graduate teaching assistant. Each participant (three undergraduate music education majors and three teaching assistants) submitted to being interviewed…

Developing good record-keeping habits is essential for organizing, processing, and communicating experimental results objectively. Therefore, the authors designed an interactive method of teaching first graders to record, organize, and interpret data as they studied the life cycle of the spotted salamander ("Ambystoma maculatum"). In their…

Introduction: The rapid growth of the Internet has modified the boundaries of information acquisition (tracking) in environmental scanning. Despite the numerous advantages of this new medium, information overload is an enormous problem for Internet scanners. In order to help them, intelligent agents (i.e., autonomous, automated software agents…

There has been an ongoing debate concerning the usefulness of a statistical technique called profile analysis. Profile analysis is a data analysis process that identifies patterns in a battery of test scores. The use of profile analysis is generally supported by clinicians in the field who are using profile analysis to help determine group…

To prepare the education chapter for the forthcoming volume of the U.S. Library of Congress'"Handbook of Latin American Studies," the author reviewed over 500 publications on Latin American education issued between 1978 and 1983; the abstracts of approximately 200 of them will be published in the forthcoming volume of the Handbook. The…

Fragmented treatment in the literature of the problem of unbalanced data suggests an examination within a single framework of some of the more important issues. (JH)

A research design is used to find out how effective a given piece of research has been. This short course in the fundamentals of research design is intended to bring together a few typical examples and a few generally accepted principles of research in a practical kit. After a brief introduction on how to progress from data that is uncountable to…

The general objectives of this study were to develop, investigate, and analyze the academic patterns of Iowa State journalism graduates from 1965-1970 and, with the use of multivariate statistical techniques, attempt to ascertain and determine possible inferences regarding their academic success. Grade point averages were considered as…

A definitive study of the sizes of documents in the ERIC Data Base is reported by the ERIC Processing and Reference Facility. This is a statistical and frequency distribution study encompassing every item in the file whose record contains pagination data in machine readable form. The study provides pagination data that could be used by present and…

The Child Welfare Information Service (CWIS), a computerized information system in New York City, provides data about the movement of children from natural parents through the foster care system to independence. (Author/SE)

The interrelationships among within-aggregate, between-aggregate, and total-group correlation coefficients are summarized with artificial and real-data examples. The relevance of correlation analyses at various levels of aggregation and some of the difficulties encountered in cross-level inference are also discussed. (Author/JKS)