Prompted by recent reanalysis of data from "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress" (Bennett, 1976), the authors consider whether there is an overall trend in British evidence favoring formal or informal teaching styles and whether this dichotomy is important to future studies of teacher effectiveness. (Author/SJL)

The author reports on a survey of secondary school pupils' attitudes regarding computer-assisted instruction and specific software packages in their English classes. The students concentrated more on learning issues than technological concerns in their comments. (CH)

The objective of this investigation was to collect data on the needs of information users which could serve as a basis for the design of information systems in the social sciences. Research habits of social scientists were explored to identify research procedures and problems of research including circumstantial and environmental variables. A…

Two papers on teaching methods are presented. The first concerns an experiment that tested the relative effectiveness of three teaching methods: an uninterrupted lecture, a tape-recording, and reading a prescribed text. The three-way research design used the three teaching methods, three groups of six student teachers of physical medicine between…