A discussion on the need for research to focus on the effects of simulation games on students and social learning. (HB)

The author reviews the Warnock Report's analysis of special education research in Britain, cites limitations of the Warnock approach, and suggests an alternative strategy using a broader base. (CL)

Defines instructional product verification and revision (IPVR) and presents 20 questions with relevant speculations about each. The philosophy of IPVR suggests beginning with our best guesses, and verifying and revising them on the basis of feedback from the field. (VT)

The purpose of this paper is to state the reasons why secondary analysis serves an important function in educational research. (Author)

Presents fifteen classroom activities in listening and auding and describes the need for more research in these subjects. (DD)

Common and varying elements of different approaches to curriculum development are identified to highlight the need for comparative analysis of efficiencies. (GW)

Raises four questions which might generate research into the teaching of advanced skills of literacy to young adults. (DD)

Suggests an R&D process which has demonstrated its utility as a means of allowing researchers to communicate more effectively with both users and administrators (or funders). (Author/DAG)

Discusses the five studies conducted to date on the relationship between formal grammar instruction and student writing skills, concluding that new studies need to be done and the old studies need to be duplicated. (DD)

Discusses the effect of cross age tutoring on adolescents, the experience for the tutor, and the quality and quantity of the effect. Having moved from the practical to the theoretical, it is suggested that a rigorous experimental study measuring several aspects of development needs to be conducted. (Author/DEP)

The author postulates that cultural factors related to technological innovations and an overstimulating environment may be as responsible for the incidence of hyperactivity as the organic and emotional causes usually studied. (GW)

Summarizes the themes of the research in the sourcebook and suggests possible directions for future research in the study of youth and the adult work world. (Author/BB)

The editorial examines trends in studies of the extremely gifted or prodigies, noting reasons why little work has been done until recently, describing current work, and promoting the need to gather systematic case materials on specific forms of giftedness and improve the level and quality of the theoretical base. (DB)

Research and development (R & D) have been a fundamental of the human performance technology heritage. This treatise is intended to refocus the profession on the importance of R & D, presenting a classification scheme of purposes, methods, and categories for embracing multiple views of R & D. (Author/JOW)

Reviews federal and state law on one issue--stepparent support of stepchildren--and outlines the areas in which social science research is needed for policy development. (Author/BL)