Describes current activities in the acquisition and control of children's literature and calls for a national plan to develop existing collections for a wider scholarly audience. (JB)

An examination of why educational technology has progressed so slowly and remained on the periphery of educational systems." The article also outlines some of the requirements necessary for educational technology to succeed. (Author/AA)

The origins, objectives, organization, and programs of the Institute are briefly described. (LS)

The issue of whether or not early adolescence is a transitional or stable period of development may be dependent on our ability to describe ways in which early adolescents are quantitatively and qualitatively different from when they were children and how these early adolescent characteristics are forerunners to the more elaborate constructs of…

Describes a 10-term model of the educational policy-making and implementation process. Discusses the roles, relationships, and interaction of the practitioner, policy maker, and researcher within the model. Describes the role of research and sets priorities for educational research into the content and context of the educational process. (SB)

Naturalist and interpretive accounts of educational research lack an adequate philosophical account of its nature. Educational research is both interpretive and scientific. Only by repudiating divisions and distinctions that separate the research community from the educational community can research which is both educational and scientific by…

Indicates that graduate home economists have not been extensively involved in research activities and examines the undergraduate curriculum as a determinant of research potential. (JOW)

Reviews the history of the developmental study of infants and children at biological risk and appraises the current state of the art. Four research phases during the period from 1920 to the present are identified, each reflecting aspects of the social, political, health, and psychological zeitgeist. (Author/RH)

Current beliefs about how children draw emphasize the importance of drawing from memory, rather than from observation. However, an experiment with children aged seven to nine showed that observation drawings included greater detail and complexity. More research on observation drawing is recommended. (IS)

The literature on the use of evaluative information in local education agencies is summarized. A general structure for studying evaluation use is presented. It is organized after the commonplaces of education (teacher, student, and subject matter). (BW)

This paper compares an uncorrected with a corrected correlation between a selection test and a test-criterion in terms of expected mean square error (EMSE). It presents evidence that although the uncorrected may be more biased than the corrected correlation, it may have a smaller EMSE value, especially in small samples. (Author/PN)

The principal objective of recruitment efforts should be to help students make the right college choice. Research can help decide what the college should--and can--say about itself in publications, and how the communication factors can be organized most effectively. (MSE)

A multi-institutional project was initiated to integrate findings of research studies directed toward major science education research questions. Overall operation of the project, research questions identified, and some rudiments of meta-analysis are described. (Author/JN)