Reviews research to determine applicability of Matthew Miles' temporary system theory to organized camping in Connecticut. Reveals resident camps exhibit more temporary system features than day camps and program directors respond to more similar temporary system features than camp directors. Supports importance of camp setting as effective…

Presents a classroom activity which can be used both to assess student's modes of thought and to clarify the logic of hypothesis testing. The task is based on Piaget's theories of cognitive development. (HM)

Distributive education teachers who had received a set of learning activity packages for the Inter-State Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium learning system were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward perceived barriers to implementing the system. Methods and procedures, findings, and conclusions of the author's doctoral research…

From a priori and post hoc data collection perspectives, this paper describes the interrelations among (1) power, alpha, effect size, and sample size for hypothesis testing; and (2) precision, confidence, and sample size for interval estimation. Implications for special education researchers working with convenient samples of fixed size are…

This booklet provides some systematic guidelines for assisting educational planners to discriminate between high-quality educational research and research that should not be relied on for decision making. The guidelines focus on educational research studies that employ either experimental or survey-research methodologies. A checklist is presented…

This book provides information on what works in education, how teachers can find what works, how educational research can find its way into classrooms, and how teachers can apply it to help individual students. Data come from a meta-analysis of research studies on instructional strategies that could be used by K-12 teachers. Nine research-based…