For several decades Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) have been a resource in the workplace to handle troubled employees. The areas of supervisor training and employee motivation provide opportunities for involvement of psychologists in the EAP field. Surveys conducted with EAP directors revealed that many programs are planning to do supervisor…

The state of the art of research on child development in New Zealand is reported in this paper. It is noted that while many courses in child development are taught in New Zealand, few incentives or resources for a viable and continuous child development research program are provided. Perhaps because of restricted opportunities for research and…

In reference to the topic of research, it seems an incongruence exists between what academic counseling psychologists would prefer versus what graduate students actually do. One of the first fears experienced by novice graduate students surrounds taking statistics and research methodology courses. Normalizing the statistics-related anxiety, and…

In this excerpt from an address to the 1982 meeting of the American Educational Research Association, the director of the National Institution of Education reaffirms the Institute's commitment to equal education and quality education and outlines priorities for the funding of educational research in the 1980s. (Author/GC)

A study examined secondary scholastic journalism researchers' current and past experiences in scholastic journalism, their professional affiliations, their current responsibilities, their reasons for conducting research, their current collaborative research efforts, and their desire for future collaborative efforts. Fifty-five of the 86 members of…

The author contends that within executive government, which already has all the information it needs to make decisions, program evaluation is seen as a symbolic rather than a substantive enterprise. If it is assumed that program evaluation is an end of policy, not a means, the reasons for government investment in evaluation include: (1) no choice;…

Contends that increased attention to extramural support for communication scholarship is necessary, if not sufficient, for communication to prosper in the immediate future. Lists assertions in support of expending energy on extramural funding. (MS)

Discusses the problems of developing research in educational administration from the perspective of the independent researcher. Raises questions about the development of educational research and about the sponsorship and funding of research in the United Kingdom. (Author/IRT)

While the mentoring process appears to occur regularly and usually quite effectively in the sciences, it seems not to occur as readily in non-science areas such as the humanities and the social sciences. This study is a follow up to earlier studies that examined interview responses of students who participated in summer research programs. The…

Focusing on the increasing attention of communication scholars to the production of conversation, this paper outlines three broad perspectives on discourse analysis: (1) codification, which involves discrete categorizing of discourse and includes work in speech act theory, traditional interaction analysis, and message strategies; (2) coordination,…

This review of the research into the agenda-setting function of mass communications posits a structure of the agenda-setting process in order to (1) organize the existing research literature in a coherent fashion and (2) identify the gaps in our existing knowledge of the agenda-setting function of the press. Major sections of the paper discuss the…

The author sees the role of women in the sciences expanding due to two factors. First, science and technology remain two rapidly expanding fields, with plenty of room for more participants, both men and women. Second, with anti-intellectualism on the rise, qualified male and female scientists are needed to defend science and to search for…

The premise of this paper is that the state of educational sociology in New Zealand is uncertain. The following reasons are given: (1) The tradition of sociology is underdeveloped in New Zealand; (2) The community of scholars is scattered and divided; (3) Not enough effort has gone into the development of graduate research and occupational…

To help organizational communication scholars locate appropriate financial support, this paper classifies organizational communication into nine major categories, and notes 13 national agencies and organizations that provide research money for projects in one or more of those classifications. The paper also discusses some general principles to…

Over the past decade, a number of scholars have publicly criticized large research universities for failing to provide undergraduate students with the skills and abilities needed to succeed both in life and in the workforce. At the heart of this criticism is the concern that research institutions have de-emphasized teaching by increasing the size…