The domain of research is considerably limited. The majority of societal goals for education are not completely known nor can they be explicitly enough stated for there to be sufficiently rigorous evaluation and research. (Author)

Author expresses concern about a number of problems inherent in the DD and A processes as they now exist in education and feels that educational practitioners making changes and innovations need to be protected from research and evaluation reports of poor quality. (Author/MB)

Examines obstacles to vocational education research. (Editor)

In exercising reasonable caution to preserve the integrity of counseling, counselors inhibit the use of research methods most likely to lead to improvements in counseling. The purposes of this paper are (a) to explore one possible solution to this problem, and (b) to describe a laboratory based counseling research program. (Author)

The use of matched sampling in experimental and nonexperimental research ahs been frustrated by the problems of attrition and incomplete matching. The amount of attrition of sample size and incomplete matching are shown to be a function of various aspects of the research, including the level of measurement of the matching variables, the sampling…