A review of literature from 1983 to 1992 suggests that a more complete understanding is now possible of the information needs, uses, and information-seeking behavior of the humanities scholar. A current portrait of humanities scholars suggests that this client group is more diverse than previously assumed. (Author/JKP)

This response to EC 603 649 argues that the field of applied behavior analysis does train a large number of practitioners and administrators and a few researchers, that graduate programs already vary research training and practice training, and that both practicing and research behavior analysts need to be taught the logic of experimental control.…

This response to EC 603 649 agrees that the field of applied behavior analysis has a low success rate in teaching productive researchers but argues that the corrective action should involve doing a more effective job of teaching students how to be successful researchers in nonacademic settings. (JDD)

This study surveyed 50 full-time faculty from a doctoral-granting institution regarding their definition of faculty scholarship, through naming and describing scholars. An inventory of 249 attributes of faculty scholarship resulted, confirming the complexity of the faculty scholarship construct. (The inventory is appended.) (Author/DB)

Discusses ethical problems of research in rural Indian communities, including incompatibility of traditional world views and philosophies of ethics and science; community attitudes toward membership, taboos, and individual autonomy; confidentiality and disclosure; risks and benefits for community and leaders; and basis and provider of informed…

The collaborative conversation of the researcher and seven relatively new female teachers is described to contribute to an epistemological understanding of learning to teach while raising questions about facilitating and studying the learning of beginning teachers. Also noted is the emergence of a feminist consciousness in the participants. (SLD)

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 requires that employment criteria be job related. This provision could be extended to the doctoral degree, which is a superfluous and inappropriate qualification for college faculty because it provides specialized and narrow coursework aimed at the needs of the researcher, not the subject-area teacher. (MSE)

Discusses microforms of historical sources based on results of a questionnaire sent to historical researchers. Topics addressed include distribution from one site to another; the preservation of newspapers, manuscripts, and other sources; finding aids, including bibliographic control; standards; and new technologies for reproducing and delivering…

A discussion of evolving patent issues in university research in the United Kingdom focuses on three points: (1) attitudes within universities toward ownership and management of patents; (2) who has the right to patent inventions generated during university research; and (3) the impact patenting will have on research in the future. (MSE)

Issues of teacher education and training (INSET) have received little systematic attention from the profession. A critical evaluation of a four-year project with teachers of German in the Pacific Northwest provides the basis for a framework of INSET within which teachers learn to function as researchers and as teacher trainers. (Contains 42…

The survey of 148 graduates of the combined M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program at Washington University (Missouri) found that 95 percent chose to enter residency programs rather than postdoctoral fellowships and 89 percent of those who had completed all training planned to join academic institutions or the National Institutes of Health.…

University professor addresses issues that can inhibit or distort collaborative qualitative research. The article looks at issues of power and authority in collaborative research in a teacher researcher group involving five classroom teachers and the professor. (SM)

Describes a continuously evolving, successful Wisconsin model of action research that relies on the collaborative work of schools and universities to improve K-12 programs. The entire collaborative action research model is possible without any reassignment of responsibilities for teachers or faculty. (SM)

Describes a composition teacher's efforts to diagnose her vocational college students' literacy skills by using a more authentic performance assessment that integrates reading and writing. (SR)

Three areas of biological research that are beginning to have an impact on clinical medicine are examined, including molecular biology, cell biology, and biotechnology. It is concluded that oral biologists and educators must work cooperatively to bring rapid biological and biomedical advances into dental training in a meaningful way. (MSE)