Describes an elementary school teacher's experience with action research in which the teacher sought to help children develop science investigations based on their own questions. (WRM)

This article examines contributions of teacher efficacy literature to the study of teaching students with severe disabilities. The self-efficacy construct is explained, followed by a review of associated research problems. Findings on relationships between perceived self-efficacy of teachers and perceptions of student abilities, classroom…

This review of the literature on consultation in heterogeneous classrooms provides first, an overview of consultation; second, a description of school-based consultation; third, a research synthesis of exemplary studies of school-based consultation; and, finally, suggestions for future research and implications for practice. (Author/DB)

Asserts that the reductionistic methodology used by M. Wang, G. Haertel, and H. Walberg in their study does not do justice to the educational phenomena they wish to illuminate. In addition, these authors have too simple a view of the relationship between educational research and educational practice. (SLD)

M. Wang, G. Haertel, and H. Walberg have produced a summary of the bivariate relationships that influence learning. The problem is how to convert such evidence into knowledge, and the knowledge into policy. Discusses how health science provides a guide for making the conversion from evidence to policy. (SLD)

Explains fundamental shifts dominating education's transition at technical, managerial, and institutional levels. Since the first edition of the "Handbook of Research on Educational Administration," school administration has been reconfigured and recultured. Social justice, democratic community, and school improvement comprise major…

Critiques "Handbook" chapters on achieving educational accountability and managing resources for school improvement. Accountability and finance research have shifted focus from resource allocation to organizational results. Principal-agent, expectancy, and risk theories provide lenses for viewing accountability. Research on how these…

Considers various theoretical and practical issues in language teaching that could help bridge the current methodological divide and proposes several reforms to the way that languages are currently taught in secondary schools and higher education. The paper emphasizes contemporary approaches to grammar, use of the first and second language in the…

A study of community service attentiveness in 42 urban colleges and universities found that the majority consider community service a high priority, but wide gaps exist between rhetoric and practice. Perceptions of internal institutional involvement and advocacy in community service differ significantly between service-attentive and inattentive…

Schools of education suffer criticism from the public for producing poorly prepared teachers and inadequate curricula. University faculties see the schools as a scapegoat, allowing blame for problems with schools to fall on teacher education rather than on higher education in general. Education schools have not been successful at melding theory…

This article examines the social skills training research-to-practice process and argues that a logical and attendant line of rigorous study is lacking. Areas of social inquiry are drawn from to discuss the need for conceptual frameworks to guide investigation and offer a way for research to be designed and interpreted. (Contains references.)…

This paper identifies nine lessons learned from five federally funded special education research to practice projects. Four projects are school-university collaborative partnerships and one is local-school- based. Both models stress research-validated practices to improve performance of students with and without disabilities across multiple years.…

Argues that the field of comparative and international education must be reconceptualized and redeveloped in order to demonstrate its potential to improve educational policy and practice worldwide and to advance theoretical work in education. Aims at stimulating discussion to generate further avenues for future research and development. (CMK)

Critiques contemporary efforts to reform Chicano education, premised on "affirmational" education (use of cultural role models to reinforce self-concept) and "reformational" education (increased minority participation in educational institutions). Proposes a "transformational" education encompassing a bifurcated…

Explores the role of Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA) and the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in shaping management strategies in the School of Geography at Kingston University, Surrey (England), and the challenges presented in teaching and researching geography in that particular environment. (CMK)