THE PAPERS IN THIS PUBLICATION WERE PRESENTED AT A 3-DAY STAFF CONFERENCE OF THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE WERE TO (1) ASSESS THE ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF VARIOUS ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES TO THE PROGRAM AREA OF THE CENTER, (2) EVALUATE THE FIELD OF ADMINISTRATION AS AN…

A CONFERENCE WAS HELD IN COLUMBUS, OHIO, ON MARCH 29 THROUGH APRIL 3, 1964, WHICH WAS DIVIDED INTO 3 PARTS. PART ONE, LASTING 2 DAYS, WAS A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING RECENT RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF TEACHER EDUCATION AS THAT FIELD HAS BEEN TRADITIONALLY DEPRIVED. PART TWO, LASTING 2 DAYS, ATTEMPTED TO STRETCH THE NORMAL BOUNDS PLACED ON…

This paper illustrates the relevance and utility of non-parametric statistical tests, such as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov two sample test, for analysis of developmental phenomena. This statistic tests the null hypothesis that two samples have been drawn from the same population by comparing their whole distributions, rather than specific parameters and…

In examining the field of speech communication and its research, it is clear that most research has focused on linking (linking the individual with the human environment) and regulatory (the regulation of human behavior) behavior. However, the primary goal of human communication is mentation (the development of higher mental processes), and this…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO IDENTIFY THE PROBLEMS, ISSUES, FUNCTIONS, QUESTIONS, AND KINDS OF RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY ACTIVE COUNSELORS IN THE FIELD OF PUPIL PERSONNEL SERVICES. A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS DEVELOPED FROM ISSUES CONSIDERED TO BE OF IMPORTANCE TO THE PUPIL PERSONNEL PROFESSION AND MAILED TO A RANDOM SAMPLE OF 500 MEMBERS SELECTED FROM A ROSTER OF…

At one time the major problems faced by an evaluator involved the best way to collect, analyze, and report data. Today, an evaluator's major problems concern responses to the evaluation report by school superintendents, principals, teachers, unions, and parents' groups. An unwillingness to publicize the evaluation results; the failure to consider…

This panel's goal was to improve the validity and utility of measurement, design, and analysis in research on teaching through the stimulation of new methodological knowledge and through the identification and translation of useful existing knowledge from other descriptions. This panel tried to identify as many methodological problems as possible…

An account is given of the rationale, methodology, and preliminary results of an initial research effort to develop a scheme for use as a guide in generating and applying behavioral information. Objectives are to clarify relationships between military tasks and existing psychological knowledge, indicate training problems requiring further…

In German, this article asserts that present concepts of evaluation are too narrow for curriculum evaluation. Research must differentiate different forms and roles of evaluation, produce a curriculum evaluation model, and resolve problems of values and judgement. The second section discusses the different forms and roles of evaluation: formative…

This paper is a discussion of the different contexts in which the concept of the infant's state is used in infant research. The infant states discussed are: regular sleep, irregular sleep, drowsiness, alert inactivity, waking activity, and crying. Also included are hunger periods and indeterminate states, those instances in which an infant's state…

The purpose of this presentation is to describe the current methodological emphases in Sociology and to speculate on emerging patterns that will form the nature of Sociology in the future. This is done systematically through an analytical framework outlined in Diagram 1. In addition, he examines the problems and potentials for interdisciplinary…

The epistemological status of factors--that is, components, common factors, and image factors--is briefly discussed. Implications for the number of factors problem of varying views of factor analysis and the particular factor analytic model employed are noted, and the rationales underlying the best known decision rules regarding the correct number…

THIS STUDY WAS CONCERNED WITH THE NATURE AND RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE COGNITIVE FACTORS, ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS, AND THEIR PERSONALITY AND ACADEMIC CORRELATES. ENTERING FRESHMEN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN WERE TESTED WITH A BATTERY OF NINE TESTS TO OBTAIN THE DATA REQUIRED FOR ANALYSIS. SUSPECTED CONTAMINATION OF THE TEST RESULTS DUE TO…

A researcher takes a critical look at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting report of a Roper survey of public television viewers and finds it "littered with procedural and reporting inadequacies." (Author)

Content analysis of articles appearing in "Rural Sociology" from 1965 to 1976 shows that the discipline is characterized by theoretical closure and methodological monism, suggesting a crisis of discipline stasis. (Author/KR)