Responds to "Recent Developments in Australia and Overseas" by Keith Solomon, regarding the definition of adult education, the effect of social change on adult education, and the need for research. (JOW)

The author responds to criticism of his research made in the previous article. Concludes that his critic misread his research findings. (FL)

Historians and observers who believe that historians can discover the truth are deceiving themselves and others. The choice of subjects for research and teaching is necessarily personal and subjective. History informs us about the past of mankind, but does not provide criteria for future action. (MSE)

Discusses views of various scholars regarding the current difficulties of history as an academic discipline. Particular emphasis is placed on the works of Don Karl Rowney (Bowling Green State University) and Timothy Donnovan (University of Arkansas) who stress that history's form reveals history's function. (DB)

Suggests that minority groups research concentrate on the search for constraints and variables that meet the following criteria: (1) they should be characteristic potentials of humanity and human society; (2) they should have functional significance for individual, as well as social system psychology; and (3) they should be capable of being…

Reviews and synthesizes, within the broad framework of comparative cognition, several approaches to the study of human memory, including ontogenetic, cultural/sociohistorical, and clinical research. Asserts that future research on comparative memory development must focus on the flexible and adaptive use of memory skills to meet purposes…

The article discusses the lack of research on assessment and training of social skills to mentally retarded persons and proposes a multidimensional model for its study. (CL)

Among the most important industrial education research topics as ranked by an editorial board are the following: research issues in the 1980s, faculty development, teacher shortage, criteria for evaluating vocational programs, and validation of criterion-referenced measures. (SK)

Describes schema theory and Louise Rosenblatt's transactional theory. Notes the similarities between these two theories of the reading process and suggests directions for research based on their combined use. (RL)

This excerpt from a conference paper discusses changes affecting adult education, criticism of adult education's past performance, research needs in the future, and recommendations for the 1980s. (CT)

A review of the literature suggests that no significant research has been conducted with adolescents with educational handicaps in the areas of achievement motivation, labeling, memory and retrieval, moral development, and cognitive development and integration. (Author)

This article presents the case for the systematic study of music instruction using economic analysis. A taxonomy of four instructional types based on teacher and student choice is derived and hypothetical examples from music instruction are presented. The implications of the analysis for future research are discussed. (Author)

Argues that the item of first priority in general semantics research is to come up with a coherent framework for the overall organization of general semantics studies, and offers a few thoughts on beginning the search for a solution to this problem. (GT)

Evaluates, in question/answer form, the available research literature on giving instructions/directions in terms of their effect on learning; presents a few guidelines on writing directions for practitioners; and points out some "missing links" in the area of research. (Author)

This article proposes several models for the analysis of mobility tables and examines the relationship of these latent structure models to some earlier mobility models, including the 'perfect' and the 'quasi-perfect' models. Uses of each of these models to derive various kinds of substantive inferences are suggested. (DB)