Reviews child welfare research studies and discusses empirical literature on relationships among race, services, and outcomes in selected child welfare domains. Provides summary of previous research. Presents conceptual and methodological considerations for future research on role of race in child welfare and development of culturally competent…

Discusses the renaissance of motor skill acquisition studies that are affording new insights into the processes by which infants and children learn to control their bodies. The article explains how studies are now focusing less on how children perform and more on how the components cooperate to produce stability or engender change, thus making…

Discusses colleges' use of popular financial reporting to make their annual financial reports more readable to citizens and legislators and to make their reports useful marketing and recruitment tools. Highlights research about financial reports and performance reporting conducted by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Describes the…

Discusses the finances, activities, and publications of the Southern Association on Children under Six from September 1991 to August 1992. Reports the changing of the organization's name to the Southern Early Childhood Association. (BB)

Vignettes depicting the physical mistreatment, psychological mistreatment, and neglect of children were used to examine perception and reportage of child abuse with 160 jurors and 176 child protective service/police personnel. Jurors born before 1945 were less critical of mistreatment than those born later, and female jurors pledged to report…

This article reviews research on child development relevant to the question of the veracity of mistreatment allegations made by children ages two to five years. The article covers research on thought and language, memory and learning, fears, fantasy, play, and television's effects. It is concluded that preschoolers base their play on the reality…

This study evaluated child sexual abuse statistics since introduction of a child sexual abuse program in 1985 in Shelby County, Tennessee. Findings suggest a highly fluctuating validation rate, higher validation rates for girls than boys, possible underreporting of male victims, and 78 percent of the perpetrators being known to their victims.…

Guidelines, developed by the Council for Learning Disabilities Research Committee, for the minimum description of participants with learning disabilities in educational research. Subjects should be described both in the report narrative and in an accompanying table. Editors of professional journals are urged to require that all manuscripts contain…

This review of the literature concerning professional judgments and empirical research on the actual incidence of incompetent public school teachers finds that both judgments and the limited number of studies published suggest that approximately 10% of public school teachers are incompetent. (SLD)

Provides analysis of the various kinds of audiences for whom technical materials are written. Describes the functions of the "watchdog" audience, who oversees the written transaction between the author and primary audience. Provides data from an ethnographic case study of engineering authors in a technical setting. (HB)

Emphasizes the importance of report card conferences, in which the teacher discusses with each student his or her performance during the marking period. Such conferences can help (1) eliminate misunderstandings between parents and teachers that result from students' confusion about their grades; (2) boost student morale; and (3) create a better…

Analyzed think-aloud protocols of elementary teachers as they composed language arts report cards. Found that teachers wrote report cards for specific purposes (to motivate, inform, change behavior, etc.) and audiences (students, parents, teachers, administrators), and that these considerations influenced the information included on the report…

Encourages parents and educators to apply political pressure through advocacy to make policymakers aware of special education issues concerning the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Discusses the importance of being familiar with current law, knowing how to obtain services, and being an advocate on a global level. Reminds individuals…

This study examined perceptions of 54 preservice general- and special-education teachers about assessment summaries presented in either a traditional or a profile format. The profile format was preferred for its ability to communicate between staff and parents, introduce the student to peers, and explain who the student was in a well-rounded…

Reports on the application of a North American system of research writing in a high-intermediate class of English-as-foreign-language learners in Colombia. The system was adapted from a variety of sources representing typical approaches to the introduction of academic research writing at the university level in the United States. (Author/VWL)