Describes the Congressional Science Fellows program. (SL)

Describes a collaboration between a researcher and a fifth grade teacher, and how the teacher progressed gradually from a beleaguered instructor to a "researching teacher" capable of solving problems. (HTH)

Criticizes the way reviewers comment on research proposals. Recommends reviewers be more openminded and less sarcastic, and offer constructive criticism in their reviews. (MS)

This article contains highlights of an interview with John Rothney concerning his personal and professional life and career of research, counseling, and teaching. (Author)

States that a teacher-researcher is an observer, a questioner, and learner. (DF)

This article discusses the significance of researcher-teacher relationships in naturalistic classroom studies, presents observations related to those relationships, describes a continuum of such relationships, and considers implications designed to assist researchers in planning and implementing their studies. (Author/MT)

Ways in which the ethics of value judgment are inherent in sociological research are examined. Also, the course of action that a researcher should consider when doing or talking ethics in relation to the society in which he or she expects to undertake research is discussed. (Author/RM)

This paper represents a tribute to the career of Ralph Winfred Tyler, whose publication "Constructing Achievement Tests" served as the basis for most of the major efforts in evaluation since 1934. Tyler's career is traced from his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago to his guidelines for national assessment. (LMO)

Asserts the need for good research is common for people involved with performance and instruction issues, and stresses interdependence of research and field workers. Discusses principles of objectivity, precision, and empiricism in good research. Examples illustrate how methods of practitioners are improved through application of these principles.…

The conceptual dualism encountered by psychologists is directly tied to the dialectical nature of the activities behavioral scientists engage in when studying living organisms. Most empirical studies fall on a continuum between correlational and experimental studies with bulges at each extreme. (MS)

The importance of research in professional and personal development is increasingly being acknowledged. So why should children not benefit in a similar way? Traditionally, children have been excluded from this learning process because research methodology is considered too difficult for them. Principal obstacles focus around three key barriers:…

This paper describes an incident between an academic researcher and a community member. The encounter, in which a researcher asked questions about farming practices, shows how cultural misunderstanding and failure to communicate the gains of research to the community has the potential to generate distorted information. The academic researcher has…

This paper presents two examples of teacher researchers conducting classroom inquiry situated in a framework of care. The teacher research movement continues to gain momentum as researchers seek answers and better understanding of issues related to their own practice. However, teachers continue to have difficulty in finding value in the practices…

Researchers in behavioral science have traditionally used "classical" statistics (e.g., mean and standard deviation) in analyzing data and reporting the results of their studies. However, it has been argued that classical statistical methods do not always represent the population well when analyzing sampling data, resulting in reduced…