The purpose of this issues brief was to obtain a better understanding of how online programs are dealing with students who have been identified as at-risk. The first section, "Strategies for Working with At-Risk Student Populations in Online Environments," documents a sampling of K-12 online programs currently working with at-risk…

This comprehensive professional handbook will help transition specialists, general and special educators, school psychologists, and administrators support youth and young adults in setting goals and achieving positive outcomes across employment, education, and community settings. Through up-to-date research and in-depth analyses of five successful…

Background/Context: Over the past half century, scholars in a variety of fields have contributed to our understanding of the relationship between higher education and social stratification. We review this literature, highlighting complementarities and inconsistencies. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: We situate our review of the…

The use of Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) is becoming increasingly important and widespread in mathematics research and teaching. In this paper, I will report on a questionnaire study enquiring about mathematicians' use of CAS in mathematics teaching in three countries; the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hungary. Based on the responses…

Outlines the kind of research that must be done before the best class size can be determined. (Available from The Ontario Council for Leadership in Educational Administration, Suite N1201, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1V5, Canada) (IRT)

This assessment of the status of research on instructional development (ID) discusses such conceptual problems as the confusion between ID and instructional design, reviews previous research, and proposes a framework for future ID research. Decision-oriented issues discussed within this framework include: (1) administrative and policy issues of ID…

The purpose of this paper is threefold: to explore the current status of group process research; to present an automated system for collecting group observations; and to provide a framework for a training method for observers. In the discussion of group process research it is suggested that it remains largely unclear what the relationships are…

Two studies were conducted dealing with death and grief in a college student population. In the first study three separate surveys were conducted with undergraduates (N=557) enrolled in an introductory course on human development. In the second study in-depth interviews with undergraduates (N=18) bereaved over the death of a family member or a…

Institutions which own primary source materials on historical figures encounter many problems when they attempt to provide access to the information for scholars. (LS)

In order to ascertain to what degree educational researchers are concerned with and involved in social issues, a questionnaire on social attitudes, activism, political attitudes, attitudes toward AERA, and research activities was mailed to 672 members of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). When demographic characteristics of the…

The introductory notes that precede this bibliography of higher education in developing countries discuss: (1) the role and importance of higher education in developing countries; (2) the problems facing higher education in these countries; (3) the nature of the researchers and their research on higher education in these countries; and (4) some of…

As has been the case in medicine, social work, and psychiatry, progress in education will follow closely the adequacy of our category system concerning pertinent functions of a child, our understanding of these functions, how children fail to function properly (malfunction), causes of malfunction, signs of malfunction, course of malfunction (time,…

Three successive groups of education students enrolled in a fifth year M.Ed. program were tested in a longitudinal study for differences between their attitudes after completing the academic portion of the program (first semester) and after completing internship (second semester), which involved full teaching responsibility along with biweekly…

One can agree with Donald M. Medley (Educational Testing Service) that "research in teaching has neglected individual differences among teachers" without accepting his statement that the "behavioral goals of teacher education are an individual matter." A teacher, while finding behaviors relevant for himself, should be able to begin with certain…

The study examined the quality of educational research published in the journals, with a focus on the following: (1) an evaluation of the quality of contemporary published research from the standpoint of sound research conduct and reporting as judged by experts, and (2) an examination of the relationship between assigned quality ratings and…