Implementing survey recommendations is a perennial administrative problem. This article suggests that giving more attention to the methods of conceiving, commissioning, and conducting surveys and communicating survey results could produce more effective implementation of the findings at the decisionmaking level. (Author)

The article discusses the relationship between research and educational practice, and suggests that the lag between research and implementation be remedied by making the progress of the individual handicapped child the target of research. (GW)

The assumption that education is a means of achieving equality in our society has been brought into question by social science. (DM)

Suggests criteria which an ideal first course in speech might meet: (1) focus on the elements typical in all speech communication behavior, (2) delete formal individual oral performance, and (3) utilize the empirical data produced by the behavioral scientists.'' (Author)

Since the Freedom of Information Act became effective July 4, 1967, federal agencies have been officially encouraged to open their records to the public. The article states, however, that pressing for the release of federally-held documents can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. (CP)

Great controversy has arisen out of Department of Defense funded projects at Stanford. Many students and faculty believe that militaristic research has no place on a college campus, in spite of protest that the research is of civilian value as well. (HS)

The author traces the trends of special education in the 60's, and examines the strengths, weaknesses, and future implications resulting from the decade's efforts. (RD)

Psychological and educational measurement is carried out according to the type of model used and data collected. The H entropy which shows the dispersion of the data can be divided into intragroup and intergroup entropy. Choice of colors, sociometrical choice, and the communications are three situations where this resolution can be applied. (MF)

College professors at Pennsylvania State University were asked how often they related their own research to the classes they taught; results indicated that research and teaching were not mutually reinforcing. (Author/SP)

In Holland little interest is shown in the sociology of law, and the extent of socio-legal research that can be done is quite limited. (IR)

Points to need for counselors to be involved in research activities, while at the same time examining reasons why they are not. Suggests that counselors have an obligation to divest themselves of the rigidity that hampers research at the local level, and attempt to conduct action research. (CJ)

An historical account of the introduction and increasing use of sociological data in court decisions, with respect to laws for the protection of the health, public morals, and safety of citizens. A brief discussion of the social and economic philosophical implications. (JB)

An examination of learning theory and its applicability to the design of effective individualized instruction. The article also discusses the need to consider learning objectives when choosing media to perform instructional functions. (AA)

There are circumstances and threats that make it difficult to use the social sciences to help solve practical problems. For example, information that arrives too late will not be used. Yet, too late is not often defined. However, social and organizational psychology can be used to develop strategies to overcome these threats. (RM)

In reaction to presentations at the Airlie House Conference on the Implications of Research on Teaching for Practice, two papers (by O. Smith and N. L. Gage, respectively) discuss how far research on teaching has come as a field, while a third (by G. D. Fenstermacher) explains how implications of research on teaching can be used. (MP)