Anthropological methodology suggests there may be two difficulties with utilizing evaluations over and above the many outlined in several generations of evaluation utilization literature. The first - "going native" - arises when the evaluator has consciously adopted the value and belief system of those in the program he or she is…

This rejoinder to McCall (Volume 56, 217-218) discusses the differences in viewpoint with respect to the relationship between models and theory, the notion of "direct" tests of propositions, and the use of measures of explained variance to evaluate model performance. (Author/BE)

Identifies six categories of design and methodological errors contained in the 39 empirical studies of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) documented through April 1984. Representative reports reflecting each category are discussed. Suggestions are offered for improving the quality of research on NLP. (Author/MCF)

Outlines difficulties that teachers are likely to encounter in combining tasks of teacher and researcher and that might deter them from accepting the dual role. (JOW)

Thirty-nine articles (1970-1982) on drug effects in mentally retarded participants were evaluated on 14 methodological dimensions. Methodological shortcomings were evident in most, but not all, studies. The relative scarcity of methodologically sound studies has significant implications for clinicians, whose decisions concerning drug use with the…

Questions in voter questionnaires which disturb people most are those concerning invasion of privacy, minority groups, sex, religion, human rights, violence or cruelty, censorship, inferiority of other nations; and those that include emotion-arousing terms, suggestive words and phrases, and slurs about specific groups of individuals. (KJ)

The sheer number of instructional materials on the market creates a problem for educators because every new device must be carefully evaluated as to its feasibility before its successful use can be assured. (CK)

Outlines three barriers to successful research in reading: design and analysis mismatch; lack of specification of treatment conditions; and inappropriate control groups. (MB)

The obsolescence of evaluation research is a consequence of both its failure to recognize the enterprise of evaluation as an ill-structured problem and its acceptance of implicit decision rules which maximize its own irrelevance. Systemic dialectical evaluation is proposed as an approach for enhancing evaluation's relevance. (Author/GK)

Questions Husaim and Cohen's basic assumption that stimulus dimensions or attributes defined by the experimenter have psychological reality for infant subjects. Suggests that infants may perceive different attributes in the stimulus, or they may not articulate the stimulus into attributes at all. (Author/RH)

Based on comments by Kagan (1982), Rothbart (1982), and Plomin (1982) in response to an article on difficult temperament by Thomas, Chess, and Korn (1982), the author concludes that the study of temperamentally difficult children has a favorable prognosis. (Author/MP)