Discusses an emerging body of psychological literature by black behavioral scientists assumed to represent a radical departure in its conceptual orientation from the social pathology tradition advanced primarily by white behavioral scientists; and focuses on the construct of Self-Extension Orientation, a dynamic process which is assumed to…

Authors of the Wilms study on the effectiveness of public and proprietary vocational training respond to critical analysis of their report and call for new research studies to build on their research and corroborate or refute their findings. (Editor/JT)

Major changes in the methods and contents of research are needed. Promising trends in the design and conduct of studies include: (a) macroscopic rather than microscopic levels of study; (b) field rather than laboratory studies; (c) focusing on the total individual; (d) developing a contractual relationship between researcher and subject. (Author)

Reviews the history, content, and trends in geography teaching and research in Ireland from the 19th century to the present. All educational levels and geographical societies are described. In the past, Irish geographic education had significant influences abroad; however, its recent development has been affected by external factors. (Author/AV)

Describes research attempts to justify, identify, measure, and validate indicators of any country's health status and how its health system operates. For journal availability, see SO 506 019. (AV)

Discusses the need for additional research pertaining to cognitive preferences in science. (SL)

This paper describes the observations and experiences of a graduate student employed as a nurse's aide in a home for the aged. The difficulties encountered in attempting to apply traditional psychological methodology are discussed, and detailed anecdotal reports on individual cases are presented. (GO)

Argues that the Wrights' conclusions must be viewed with a skeptical eye because: (1) they do not understand the significance of the gap between the thesis they claim to replicate and the data they bring to bear; (2) they ignore some significant analyses; and (3) their methods of analysis, and even their sample, are much less comparable to those…

Argues that their paper is almost entirely programmatic: It attempts to indicate roughly how much we can expect to know about parental values for children once we know all there is to know about their relationship to social class; how much more might be known if similar efforts were expended on other factors; and what lines of inquiry these…

States that the Wrights now explicitly acknowledge that the 1973 National Opinion Research Center (NORC) data confirm all those findings of the original study on which they bear. (Author)

Describes uses of analogies in the college or high school geography classroom. For example, logically stated analogies of locational relationships can be used as test items or starting points for lectures. Analogous relationships between cultures can serve as subjects for research papers. (AV)

Concludes that if we do find ourselves in a situation of multiple paradigmatic perspectives on educational research, then it is not appropriate to think in the near future of there being a 'ground synthesis' of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. If the two major paradigms do exist as outlined here, and neither finds its present framework…

Concludes that in addition to using multivariate methods to analyze their data, investigators need to begin thinking in terms of large-scale randomized controlled field trails (i.e., experiments). One of the challenges for the ethnographic educational researcher is to demonstrate the superiority of the anthropological field method over the more…

Asserts that quantitative analysis facilitates the linguistic study of variability in language. The implications of such study for education are in the areas of individual diagnosis and placement. Quantitative analysis is less comfortable to linguists when it is used to generalize or obscure linguistic differences. The latter seems to be the more…

Summarizes Karl Weick's Model of Organizing including its advantages and limitations and tests one of the claims fundamental to Weick's argument. (MH)