Business education students need courses to teach them how to effectively use the business library.

Investigates the development of gerontological knowledge and its translation to practice. Discusses design, relevance, and dissemination of theory, and offers suggestions to practitioners for implementing research theories. Encourages both researchers and practitioners to make attitudinal changes to eliminate communication barriers. (University of…

Reviews research concerned with eye movement training in the classroom and points out how specific research has been interpreted and applied incorrectly. (FL)

An overview of research on school effectiveness shows that the prescriptive messages from the research (usually in the areas of norms, tasks, and relationships in schooling) can be clarified and mitigated by administrators' precautionary messages that point out the measurement and methodological problems of such research. (JW)

Researchers from 18 different countries as well as representatives of UNICEF and UNESCO attended a conference on international perspectives in child development and social policy. Topics discussed included knowledge and ideology, goals of different social groups, communication problems, and the relationship of research to practice. Bibliographic…

This article explores the utilization of qualitative methodologies in program evaluation, the rationale for using these approaches, and the potential qualitative applications within evaluation. It also describes the "scientific" and "artistic" qualitative methodologies, suggests practical qualitative application, and calls for…

A study of 65 articles from the 1981 volumes of "Administrative Science Quarterly" and "Harvard Business Review," using smallest space analysis, found that the few studies adopting subjective (instead of objective) approaches to analyzing organizational change were most likely to provide a basis for an applied administrative…

Research described by Walton and Sedlak ("Merrill-Palmer Quarterly," v28, n3, p389-412, 1982) is used to illustrate a movement within the general area of socialization research toward the incorporation of concepts from subareas of psychology. (MP)

To facilitate communication between researchers and research users, 268 American College Personnel Association members nominated topics in need of further research. Participants identified staff burnout, counselor effectiveness, faculty advising, older/nontraditional students, student recruitment/retention, and goals/motivations of contemporary…

Reviews and discusses research on teacher effectiveness as sources of criteria for evaluating teaching. Examines the translation of research results into practice, particularly in the Caribbean context. Explores additional sources of criteria outside of the research. (Author/MJL)

Summarizes research which identified characteristics of evaluation planning, implementation, and follow-up that enhance the likelihood that the resulting information will be utilized. Delineates the exemplary practices employed in North Central Association's planning, implementation, and follow-up procedures. (CAM)

The results of attempts to write educational fiction and to do educational research as a form of storytelling are not convincing either as research or as fiction. Recent developments in the Centre for Applied Research in Education represent the most marked departure yet from conventional education research. (JN)

Discusses how to promote professional growth for teachers who will be working in the same school for decades. A clinical approach for teacher development which encourages self-awareness of teaching behavior is described. This approach helps teachers to experimentally test their beliefs about their own teaching in their classrooms. (AM)