The American ideology suggesting that increased usage of English would yield upward mobility for Chamorros in Guam has succeeded in luring them to accept English as an instrument (but not as a means) of affiliation with American culture, resulting in the unintentional erosion of home usage of Chamorro. (BS)

Reasons for the lack of research in occupational therapy include small numbers of doctoral level occupational therapists, the psychobehavioral/biochemical dichotomy, the lack of a theoretical framework, the level of research instruction, the impact of a predominantly female profession, and the attitudes of institutions. (SK)

Summarizes several significant research studies conducted since 1978 that have focused on community colleges. Offers an agenda for future research, covering student objectives and outcomes, administrative decision making, and faculty administrator relationships. Identifies several research issues as fundamental to repositioning community colleges…

Nothing will kill the value of historical research more readily than a trendy, purposelessness, and careless methodology. Suggestions offered aim to give pause to future historical researchers so that they may reflect about what aspects of art they choose to study. (RM)

Most North American institutions have developed valuable institutional research capabilities. Consensus about some issues of institutional research has not yet been reached, but the work, either using existing databases or obtaining new data, helps the institutions know themselves better and is worth supporting. (MSE)

A review of current research in bilingualism reveals much attention being given to the role of the brain's right hemisphere in linguistic production. It is proposed that application of findings in second-language learning research and applied linguistics would give experimental support to the existing neurolinguistic theories. (MSE)

The role of law in social issues is reviewed in terms of the selection of research topics and the advantages and disadvantages of various methodologies used in both descriptive and inferential studies. (MSE)

A panel discusses the importance of mission-oriented research in a university relative to that of curiosity-based research. Discussants include Wes Cragg, John Leyerle, Gordon Slemon, David Olson, Jack Stevenson, and Bob Czerny. (CJB)

Current research-funding trends are not a threat to academic freedom in Canadian universities, as long as the universities carefully guard the institution of tenure. (CJB)

Presents the 12 major concerns of members of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Concerns were formulated at the 1982 annual conference held in Washington, D.C. (BJD)

Graduate students individually examined 34 photographs for an investigation of commonly perceived underlying visual dimensions. Similarity judgements between photographs were used for multidimensional scaling; subject interview data were used to describe meaningful visual concepts. Results indicate that pictures were grouped in clusters along…

Speculates on the contributions social science research can make to the field of domestic policy. Defines three approaches to applied social science: analysis, evaluation, and demonstrations. Recommends that present day social scientists give more attention to institutions and especially to the links between institutional and behavioral change.…

Discussion of difficulties in evaluating simulations and games as teaching techniques includes range of claims made for the techniques; variety available; lack of specificity of technique objectives at design stage; limitations of objective-oriented research; inherent difficulties of comparative evaluation against alternative techniques; and…

Research regarding preservice teacher education is examined. Studies are divided into categories dealing with practicing teachers, preservice students, course/program/method evaluations, teacher educators, institutional studies, and research reviews and studies of studies. Implications for policy making are offered. (DF)

Focuses on the persona or ethos of the writer. Demonstrates that ethos can be an effective form of appeal in technical discourse, particularly in commanding the attention of the audience to instruction. Suggests specific directions for future research on specific ways to communicate a strong ethos in technical texts. (EL)