Reviews various social science models of man designed to explain the issue of limits to growth for human societies. Presents arguments often advanced by proponents of pessimistic and optimistic schools of thought regarding whether society will be successfully able to deal with the limits to growth controversy. (Author/DB)

Discusses the ethical issues surrounding anthropological research and the gap between professional social scientists and the native populations they study. Issues are presented from the perspective of Black Americans' reactions to investigation by White social scientists in a segregated society. (MK)

Suggests a method for introducing university students to the notion that apparently straight-forward scientific research may contain ideological flaws. Explores researchers who have undertaken debates in their literature and classifies their ideologies as either aware or unaware. (Author/KC)

Is it ethical to select clients at random for a beneficial social service, then deny the benefits to a control group for the sake of science? Participation of control groups in planning, implementation and evaluation of social programs may resolve ethical issues. (Author/CP)

Used two instruments to compare delinquent and nondelinquent teenaged women in terms of sex role androgyny, sex role attitudes, and heterosexual relationships. Based on the results, questions the construct validity of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) and the Personality Research Form (PRF ANDRO). (GC)

To guide the unbiased process of visual inference, a four-step model is presented for the assessment of reliability, intervention effect, meaningfulness, and generalizability. A Visual Inference Checklist (VIC) systematizes this assessment process. (Author)

School districts should be allowed to dispense with labeling children as disadvantaged and to use the Title I support they receive in schools that have a high proportion of children from poor families. (Author/MLF)

Reviews writing research and practice to formulate directions for developing student writing processes. (RL)

Considered two unexplored issues concerning use of parental ratings to measure young children's temperament: (1) the validity of such measures, and (2) parents' projection of their own personality in rating their children. (Author/DB)

Four pursuit-tracking experiments were conducted in an attempt to replicate with adults, Hockey's findings that loud noise increases attentional selectivity. Neither attentional selectivity nor masking of auditory feedback was found to be significant. For Hockey's reply and the authors' rejoinder, see p499-506 of this issue. (SJL)

Ethnography has raised various issues for the educational research manager (the person responsible for directing a large-scale research and/or evaluation project). These include selection and management of ethnographers, negotiation of ethnographers' onsite roles, communication and coordination of ethnographers, and ethnographic data processing…

To interpret research, teachers should learn how to study the studies, particularly the methods by which findings are measured and interpreted. (DD)

Determined whether category norms collected from college students are appropriate for research with older adults. Concluded that for most of the categories studied here, it is appropriate to use the Battig and Montague norms when choosing stimuli for experiments with middle-aged and elderly adults. (Author)

Presents evidence from literature in the field of the sociology of science which indicates that there are reasons why scientists would and do commit fraud although the norms discouraging mendacity are powerful. Discusses why the checks and balances against fraud are not regularly implemented. (Author/DB)

Discusses problem preparation and specification along with search strategies and techniques employed by an information scientist in assisting users of on-line data bases, and briefly reviews ways to save computer time. (CWM)