Provides a brief description of a four-component instructional design model which is a research-based and comprehensive model for complex learning. Highlights include learning tasks; supportive information; just-in-time information; part-task practice; ten steps to complex learning; and directions for further research. (Author/LRW)

Discussion of online learning focuses on a study that was conducted among adult learners to investigate learners' interaction with online communities. Highlights include the concept of community; online learning communities; the importance of meeting face to face; building and maintaining community; and implications for future research. (LRW)

Outlines four overlapping dimensions of context, including information environment level, information seeking level, IR (information retrieval) interaction level, and query level (linguistics), and discusses how they are related to various issues in IR research. Suggests further areas of research that are needed to fully understand the…

A study determined that encouraging and supporting students in professional activities while they were still in school would lead those students to participate in professional nursing organizations after they graduated. Organized nursing needs to identify the factors that influence nurses to join organizations and concentrate on these factors to…

Provides a content model for the study of technology, described as a body of knowledge and the application of resources using a systematic approach (the technological method) to produce outcomes in response to human needs and wants. (Author)

Notes that psychotherapy process research has produced advances in measure development and substantive findings of process-outcome relations. Describes paradigm shift toward sequentially patterned, significant change episodes, emphasizing segmentation of process by meaningful patterns wherever they occur. Reviews theoretical, psychometric, and…

Examines potential relevance of contemporary psychoanalysis to counseling theory, research, and practice. Argues contemporary psychoanalytic theorists increasingly emphasize adaptive processes and social relations. Claims contemporary psychoanalytic thought will not hold central position in counseling psychology until systematic research on…

Claims exciting research has taken place within lesbian community that has more to do with what is relevant to lesbian life-styles and less to do with proving to society that homosexuality is a viable life-style. Notes current lesbian research tends to be descriptive and phenomenological as opposed to being formal empirical research. (Author/ABL)

Many realms of social inquiry, particularly public administration, are in the midst of an era of unprecedented epistemological introspection, driven primarily by frustration with the prevailing positivism of applied research. Rebuilding the systems paradigm requires recognition of its alternative view of scientific enterprise, its ability to…

Identifies and discusses limitations of current approaches to the study of professional ethics in counseling. Suggests specific directions for improving research approaches. Concludes increasing professional interest in ethical dimensions of therapeutic relationships is healthy for counseling professionals. (Author/ABL)

This rejoinder to comments on a previous article about research on the person-environment fit (PEF) model addresses issues in the relationship of congruence to vocational outcomes, the circumplex model, tests of Holland's hexagonal model, and advances in PEF theory and research. (Contains 61 references.) (SK)

Raises a number of critical questions for scale development and theorizing in the field of Black racial identity. In particular, the authors suggest that research on Black racial identity would benefit from longitudinal studies and the examination of the existence of overarching racial identity constructs. (Contains 35 references, 1 table, and an…

The authors surveyed the faculty teaching in AACSB-accredited accounting programs and examined how their publication rates varied by years-after-completing-dissertation, professorial rank, major research area, type of degree-granting institution, and gender. Using standard statistical methods, the authors found that only…

This study investigated the classification validity of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) using a sample of kindergarteners (N = 177). Results indicated the cutoff scores for determining "at-risk" status on the DIBELS produced substantial false negative rates. Cutoff scores identifying students as at "some risk"…

This paper explores the implications of the effective integration of research, teaching and learning for academic development through the lens of an international multi-institutional comparison of student perceptions of research and its impact on their learning environment. The study, with a sample of over 500 final-year undergraduate students…