This paper uses front-end analysis and feasibility analysis to determine whether all masters and doctoral students in applied behavior analysis should be trained to be research scientists or whether different training should be provided for those wishing to be practitioners. The paper concludes that most students should acquire practice skills…

This article presents an integrative skills assessment approach for teaching students of social work to perform assessments. The approach is based on technical eclecticism and combines three practice models: (1) psychosocial, (2) cognitive-behavioral, and (3) systems. Specific teaching strategies as well as shortcomings of this approach are…

Discusses the National Council for History Education (NCHE). Urges that increased instructional time is indispensable to learning history. Discusses analytical, chronological narrative with frequent pauses for studies in depth, the relationship between fact and concept, the interdependence of history, the humanities, and social science. Identifies…

This article presents and illustrates four text structure maps to help poor readers in comprehension. These patterns are: (1) the descriptive or thematic map; (2) the sequential episodic map; (3) the comparative and contrastive map; and (4) the problem/solution map. Guidelines are offered for sequencing instruction in the text maps. (DB)

This paper examines possibilities in allowing accelerated progression of talented students in the New South Wales (Australia) education system. The concept of acceleration is supported by a review of the research evidence showing that accelerated students have usually been more successful than nonaccelerated peers. (DB)

Discusses the differences between Piagetian and post-Piagetian conceptions of intellectual development and the implications of these differences for science education in early childhood. (GLR)

Describes the evolution of the qualitative-quantitative debate, and suggests that educational researchers learn to live with the necessary tensions resulting from accepting elements of each approach. The proposed critical educational research model is illustrated through examples that go beyond a positivist-interpretivist split. (SLD)

Discusses research issues related to using cognitive learning and instructional theory to design technology-based learning environments such as hypertext and hypermedia. A "Theory-to-Design" framework is described, and the framework is then used to analyze theoretical and design issues raised in a hypermedia research project. (Contains…

Argues that students embody multiple ways of knowing and learning, all of which can theoretically and practically be fostered in the literature classroom. Discusses various ways (especially choral reading and Readers Theater) of including different kinds of intelligence other than merely the verbal in the interpretation of literature. (HB)

A longitudinal study, since 1979, of two cohorts of young children with developmental delays concluded that developmental delay is a reasonable preschool eligibility option for special education services, that over three-fourths of such children later entered categorical special education, and that developmental delay should be viewed as a subset…

This paper reviews trends in research into creativity and describes the Profiling Project which is examining Creative Problem Solving (CPS), an ecologically based process model used to define problems, generate ideas, and refine solutions. Research into five dimensions of CPS are proposed: the situational outlook, personal orientation, outcomes,…

Criticizes Evans Clinchy's lead article in the June 1994 "Kappan" ("Higher Education: The Albatross around the Neck of Our Public Schools") for setting up an adversarial relationship between universities and public schools that is overdrawn, overblown, and distorted. Clinchy is misinformed about universities' practice-teaching…

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a collaborative library/information services program of distributed information services. In response to differing conceptions of "prototypes" among the professionals involved, a facility has been made available where developers and researchers can refine new technologies before…

This reflection by the first author of Evans et al. (EC 609 934) on the efficacy of notetaking skills to improve behavior and comprehension of adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder stresses the importance of integrating mental health and educational interventions and difficulties in translating results of applied research on…

This article examines the relationship between research and service provision to persons with severe mental retardation, notes frequent methodological deficiencies in current research, and proposes establishment of Australian research centers to coordinate research efforts and link research to service delivery. (DB)