Educational research is seen as distinctive when knowledge claims are set in the context of education so that the relations between educative event, assertion, and evidence is clear. (Author)

A methodological perspective is taken in examining the problem of inferring attitudes from children's responses to survey items. An experiment is reported which shows that children are highly inclined to evaluate unfamiliar objects in positive terms. Implications of this research for political socialization studies are explored and much of the…

Evaluates the cultural assimilator, a kind of training manual to help members of one culture understand and adjust to another culture. Describes those constructed for the Arab countries, Iran, Thailand, Central America, and Greece. (MB)

Reviews and evaluates existing self-report and interview measures of childhood and adolescent depression in terms of their characteristics, advantages, and limitations. (MP)

Julian Simon and Herman Kahn argue that population growth is good, not bad; they ignore or dismiss critical environmental issues. Fallacies in their arguments about predicting the future from the past, climate change, population growth, air quality, resource expansion, the finite earth, and technological growth are examined. (SR)

A temporal theory of motivation is proposed in which causes, causal dimensions, psychological consequences (expectancy and affect), and behavioral outcomes play a role in the dynamics of action. The discussion of methodological errors in attribution research that follows examines shortcomings at each of these conceptual stages in the motivational…

There are two reasons that ethnographic research in education produces good results but has a bad reputation. First is the way that scientific research has been used to justify the faults of educational institutions. Second is the inability of ethnographic research to be useful to educational practitioners. (Author/GC)