The paper compares evaluation requirements established under P.L. 94-103 (Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act) and P.L. 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act). The correspondence of the requirements to traditional evaluation models is noted, and obstacles to implementation of the evaluation procedures are…

The educational research on schools and classrooms is burdened by the unresolved images of children and their place in society. Most educational research exaggerates the dominance of the teacher and neglects the presence and power of children. This tends to support the irresponsible, dependent, and powerless role assigned to children in our…

This paper discusses current studies of economic instruction in early childhood and primary elementary school grades. While it is true that the study of economics has shifted downward to the primary grades, it is unknown exactly how widespread the teaching of economics is at this early level. The few research studies reviewed in this paper use…

This document, product of a review of eighty-one final performance and evaluation reports of elementary and secondary career education projects to identify needed improvements in career education program evaluation, has four parts. Part I, a critique of common evaluation practices, covers overall evaluation designs, reporting, questionnaires and…

The subject of this report is an approach to teaching that has become known in recent years as "open education." An attempt is made to answer the questions, What is a research variable? and, Can openness be a variable in educational research? Part 1 serves the purpose of a position statement. Certain principles are declared to be the…

Findings from several recent studies suggest that the gender, cultural background and age of observers may influence their perception and evaluation of nonverbal communication. There is ample evidence to warrant using raters of only one sex (preferably female) and only one cultural background when the rating task involves decoding nonverbal…

The argument for renewed theoretical development in the study of family communication has several implications. One is that researchers should concentrate on family communication as such rather than expanding generalizations from family communication to other groups and institutions; this requires grappling more specifically with the explication…

This document, volume 1, summarizes the main findings and conclusions of a comprehensive assessment of the state of knowledge of Organization Development (OD) in education and the nature and extent of use of OD in school districts in the United States and Canada. The study is divided into five separate volumes. Volume 2 assesses the state of…

This paper oriented for new researchers entering the field of CAI research discusses the research experience in this area, outlines some of the important computer requirements of CAI research, and proposes a conservative computer development strategy to meet those requirements. The development of PLATO and TICCIT are described as examples of the…

A contemporary theory of behavior is that faulty patterns of thinking divide the criminal from the noncriminal. The causation of school violence is children choosing to be violent; and the problem of school violence is acceptance of their choice. Short-term control measures are adherence to systematic school rules, use of technology, security…

This report of a panel discussion focuses on the design, rationale, and evaluation of the Adolescent Crisis Unit for Treatment and Evaluation (ACUTE), a program of crisis intervention for young adolescents. An overview of the structure of ACUTE's clinical program describes the efficiency of the program in seeing referrals at the time of crisis,…

This study of early childhood and the family in member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) employs two statistical approaches to the problem of providing an accurate picture of modern conditions of family life. A classical demographic approach to population studies is initially used, then is critiqued,…

Several beliefs about the teacher expectancy effect are false or half-truths. Current interest in the teacher expectation effect began with the publication in 1968 of Rosenthal and Jacobson's book, "Pygmalion in the Classroom". That book stated that a teacher's expectations for a pupil's achievement function as a self-fulfilling prophecy.…

THIS SURVEY OF THE 727 MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION (AACTE) DETERMINED THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN AND CAPABILITIES FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. USABLE REPLIES RECEIVED FROM 303 PERSONS WERE CODED AND ANALYZED. UNIVERSITIES WERE MOST HEAVILY INVOLVED IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, USUALLY COMMITTING DOUBLE OR TRIPLE THE…

There is some confusion in discriminating basic educational research (which explores the why's and how's of learning) from applied research (which seeks to test the implications of basic research results) because some investigations are conceived without a clear purpose. Thus, it is not uncommon for researchers to suggest implications that…