This paper presents an overview of research on bilingual children's language and reading development, identifying the problems and biases of past research and indicating future research needs. The paper notes that past research tended to reflect prevailing societal attitudes and an essentially linguistic bias. In recommending future research…

This document briefly critiques some of the basic theories upon which art education studies are often based, summarizes the research generalizations that may be made at this time, and reviews pertinent experiments that hold promise for future research. The Haptic-Visual Theory of Perceptual Development (Lowenfeld, 1957), the Differentiation Theory…

This paper suggests some of the implications television producers can find in emerging currents of theoretical research. The effectiveness of television over a wide range of tasks has led in some cases to too much ETV being broadcast and has covered up the fact that television can make a unique contribution to certain tasks and should be used…

The process and effects of visual communication are examined in this paper. The first section, "Visual Literacy," discusses the need for a visual literacy involving an understanding of the instruments, materials, and techniques of visual communication media; it then presents and discusses a model illustrating factors involved in the…

Based on the analysis of 270 studies pertaining to audiences of the performing arts and visitors to museums, this critical review presents a social profile of the culture consuming public and evaluates the quality and usefulness of audience research. The review offers the following information arranged in four chapters: a description of the basic…

This document describes the Conference of Ministers of Arab States Responsible for the Application of Science and Technology to Development (CASTARAB) which was organized by Unesco with the cooperation of the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) and the Economic Commission for Western Asia (ECWA). The Conference…

Data on race, higher educational attainment, and professional status help us to delineate issues, concerns and trends relevant to assessing the impact of professional schools upon black women. Professional schools which offer a direct service to black women have not, for example, systematically included within their curricula, normative data about…

Questionnaires were sent to the Academic Deans of all two-year colleges in Georgia in order to obtain information on the status of institutional research in those institutions. Responses were received from all 17 of the public junior colleges and from all but three of the eight private junior colleges. Results of the study indicated: (1) 14% of…

This is the Fourth Annual Report of the National Science Board (NSB). In this report, the NSB considers how science and engineering, through technology, can be brought to focus more effectively on societal problems. The Report reflects the conviction that changes in emphasis in the requirements for technology and changes in the pattern of demands…

The author considers research relating to what is presently known about the social interactions between nonhandicapped and special students in integrated environments. Explored are the effects of attitude formation and goal structure of the education institution on the relationship between handicapped and nonhandicapped peers. Suggested is a…

Procedures for organizing and planning a request for a research grant are presented in the document. The guidelines are divided in five sections with related subsections and contain information on what areas each section should cover: (1) a narrative statement of objectives and major tasks of the study including a list of current work in progress…

Conference proceedings are presented from a 1975 workshop sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped on research needs related to early childhood education for the handicapped. The document is divided into papers and remarks on four areas of research needs: child characteristics (remarks by N. Anastasiow), service delivery systems (a…

In the past year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has instituted new programs and initiatives designed to improve the exchange of information between the Commission and the research and academic community. An Office of Plans and Policy has been formed. As a result of the Future Planning Conference held last year, a research project is…

In his paper, the author contends that ethnic minority groups must use the "weapon of research" to answer some of the unanswered questions in vocational education and to give guidance toward future corrections of these problems. But the topic is emotionally charged, as intensive research in the past has generated resentment among minorities. The…

This book includes papers related to reading research from the International Reading Association's 1974 preconvention institute on research held in New Orleans. The introduction by Samuel Weintraub and Roger Farr discusses such questions as: Where does reading research need to be improved? What is research? What areas of reading research demand…