Discusses findings of a curriculum study on the place of death education in Catholic and Jewish schools. Religious educators felt religious courses should cover death education, and that courses should help develop values and clarify them. They believed their educational policies fostered a sense of community among students. (JAC)

There was no statistically significant difference in the marital adjustment of abusive v nonabusive parents. Both groups appear to have only mildly distressed marital relationships. The results for the couples with parent-child problems were similar to those of the original Weiss and Cerreto study (1980). (Author)

From his recent tour of elementary gifted education programs in a large midwestern metropolitan region, the author presents findings on programing approaches, pupil and teacher selection, and parent involvement. He suggests that more standardization is needed. Resource agencies and publications on gifted education are listed on p118. (SJL)

Briefly describes how students use their prior knowledge of conventions in making inferences about literature. Outlines some techniques that could be employed in conducting descriptive research studies to determine what students do or do not know and how that difference affects their response to literature. (RL)

Describes an advanced course in public relations methods wherein students use an online computer terminal system to analyze up-to-date field data and to prepare realistic audience-targeted campaigns. (RL)

The winter 1978-79 issue of this journal (see TM 504 601-609) contained a series of articles exploring the thinking of elementary school teachers while teaching, planning, making decisions, perceiving pupils, and expecting student behavior. Findings of this series are summarized and implications for research are discussed. (GDC)

Explains the types of effects, usually unintentional, that psychologists can have upon the results of their research; describes the "Pygmalion Experiment," in which teachers' expectations for children's behavior proved to be self-fulfilling prophecies; and points to research needs in the area of interpersonal expectations. (GT)

To place the concept of emotion in perspective, various issues must be considered: the usefulness of emotion as a unitary concept; the measurement of emotions and the relations among diverse measures; developmental changes; the origins of individual differences in emotional behavior; and the relation between emotional and cognitive development.…

The authors review current brain hemisphere laterality research in relation to music education, concluding that evidence is still insufficient to determine the functions of the left brain and right brain in music perception. They also consider the effects of training on the cerebral processing of music stimuli. (SJL)

Suggests that many disadvantaged minority students lack the test wiseness that would permit them to score well on standardized tests and recommends that such students be taught how to take tests. (TJ)

Ways and means to improve the social quality as well as the effectiveness of scientific and technical research are described. The utility of the systems approach and model building is evoked. (BT)

The "history of education" should no longer be considered an independent field for research and teaching. Many important questions in the history of ideas have been and continue to be numberically based, and require quantitative analysis to be answered. Revisionism in history has often involved the use of a quantitative methodology. (Author/JM)

Reference is made to a variety of policy statements and some practices in the general area of career education for the handicapped. Suggests the need for a total program in career education for the handicapped based on the attainment of specific vocational skills and various important coping skills which the handicapped need for survival. (SH)

The authors recommend research and development priorities in the area of career decision-making based on concepts of social learning theory. A survey of research resources such as the Careers Research Data Set Index (CRDSI) and the Careers Research Data Bank (CRDB) are also presented. (Author/HLM)

This article provides information about present and future research trends in North America. (JD)