The assumption that humanistic scholarship possesses intrinsic value in and of itself as "scholarship" pervades the academic community, though it is largely unspoken. Untenured faculty members rush to publish research, regardless of whether it is read or applied, because they distrust connecting scholarship with action. Academics confuse…

The importance of research training for the undergraduate psychology major is examined. Undergraduate research projects should provide experience in generating a design, implementing the project, writing the report, and presenting it to others. Research training courses should be tailored to fit both the individual student's needs and abilities…

Four ethical problems resulting from a fieldwork study of elementary education student teachers are explored. The problems include: acquiring permission to execute the study; how far to dig into personal lives to extract necessary information; the pitfalls of doing collaborative research; and how much information can be revealed without…

This review was developed by and principally for the National Testing Service (NTS) Dissemination Project Staff. It is one of eight activities being used by NTS to develop a design for an evaluation of the State Capacity Building Program. The review is in two parts. The first part provides background information, evaluation methodologies and…

This survey of recent developments in educational program evaluation is intended for persons who commission, implement, direct, or carry out evaluation studies. The attitudes of government officials, educators, and researchers toward assessment and their own evaluation needs are discussed. Various approaches to evaluation are briefly described;…

The role teacher educators may play as participants in teacher centers is discussed. It is pointed out that teacher center programs and services would be enhanced if they were linked to the educational research community generally and the research on teaching community specifically. The suggestion is made that this linking function can be provided…

Certain philosophical understandings and resulting behaviors will produce an environment conducive to participation or conducive to accepting the definitions of reality of the people involved in the research process. This is an important element of participatory research, a process towards gathering new knowledge with the people capable of…

A 4-week Research Training Institute for personnel of State departments of education interested in improving their research competence was conducted at the University of Wisconsin in 1967. The institute was divided into two separate 2-week sessions which were intended to improve research knowledge and skills and to stimulate research interests.…

Industry's view of the role of academic research services, industry's return on the investment, and forms of purchase of research services are discussed and some related ethical and economic issues are presented. Four catagories of academic research services are identified: (1) available, independent, focused expertise; (2) peer review; (3)…

A method is described by which cognitive structures in verbal data can be identified and categorized through numerical analysis and quantitative description. Transcriptions of interviews (in this case, the verbal statements of 40 researchers) are manually coded and subjected to analysis following the AaO (Agent action Object) paradigm. The texts…

By virtue of the Title V Rural Development Program, 10 paraprofessional workers were assigned, via Extension Services, to 10 counties in Appalachian Kentucky to engage in both action and research phases of community development. Extension specialists were provided to train and support the paraprofessionals in surveying local leadership,…

The complexity of problems facing university administrators is examined, along with the confusion existing as to the role of research management within universities. Based on literature reviews, and discussions with administrators and researchers at various institutions, it is found that as university faculty move further away from pure or basic…

Introductory educational research courses are often based on the scientific model of research derived from natural science. Scientific research using theoretical constructs and measurement of variables establishes a body of verified knowledge through replication of experiments. The conceptualization of the introductory research course presented in…

Based on information derived from research resumes of the Cooperative State Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), this inventory of rural development research in the Southern States is part of the Southern Rural Development Center's effort to establish a base of knowledge on rural development and to point to gaps in…

The Committee on the Role and Status of Women within the American Educational Research Association (AERA) decided to send a series of questionnaires to universities, school districts, state departments of education, and major research and development organizations in order to analyze the respective roles and statuses of men and women within AERA.…