A checklist was devised for the purpose of planning and evaluating follow-up studies in vocational rehabilitation. Brief guidelines are given for each of the features of the checklist, indicating what constitutes positive and negative qualities in follow-up studies. (Author)

The debate surrounding the effectiveness of school-uniform policies, as well as discussions concerning when and how to implement them, is rooted in anecdote. This review summarizes anecdotal literature on which the current debate is based and critically reviews the empirical literature, including theoretical underpinnings, findings, and…

This document consists of the two 2002 issues of the newsletter of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE). Each issue contains a feature article and one or more short articles on topics related to early childhood education, calls for papers, announcements about Internet resources, news items about and list…

Poverty rates are highest in the most urban and most rural areas of the United States, and are higher in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan areas. Yet, perhaps because only one-fifth of the nation's 35 million poor people live in nonmetropolitan areas, rural poverty has received less attention than urban poverty from both policymakers and…

Social studies is a field struggling to reconcile multiple and, at times, conflicting rationales. The beginning of a century is an appropriate time to reflect on the condition of social studies and to question where the world has been and where it is going. The essays in this collection explore possible answers to these questions as they apply to…

As an extension of B. Thompson's 1998 invited address to the American Educational Research Association, this paper cites two additional common faux pas in research methodology and explores some research issues for the future. These two errors in methodology are the use of univariate analyses in the presence of multiple outcome variables (with the…

The purpose of this report on research in secondary education is to study: (1) the personnel of educational research bureaus; (2) the undertakings of research departments in city school systems and in individual secondary schools; (3) the research undertakings carried on by individual secondary-school staff members not officially connected with…

The authors of this article contend that the Guinan and Foulds study was inadequately designed and executed, and the results indicate little of the "usefulness" of the test, much less illuminate the important hypothesis central to the investigation. Specific suggestions for further research in marathon group evaluation are made. (Author)

In view of the Jencks group's inference that noncognitive or personality traits play a greater role in economic success than do cognitive skills, this paper explores findings regarding important factors ignored by the Jencks group, namely need achievement and mental health. (Author/JM)

The questions "What is the data?" and "How may we interpret it?" serve as the center for a discussion of what types of research are appropriate for education. (JP)

A brief look at the potential of the computer as an educational research tool. (HB)

Presents the contrasting organismic-developmental perspective on transactions of men with their environments. Eight procedural principles are elaborated to guide studies of men-in-environment relations. These principles are then applied to the formulation of several different types of research problems and exemplified in one ongoing study.…

The black immigrant as a subject has hitherto escaped the concerns of the large majority of mainstream social scientists and historians. (DM)

The experience of the early 1970's, with a fairly constant number of poor, offers little hope that U.S. poverty will be soon eliminated. (DM)