Researchers examined two independent museum education studies conducted at the same large science center in Toronto, Canada, and considered the implications of both studies for museum education. Study "A" explored museum development practice and its relation to casual visitor understandings of key concepts. Study "B" engaged…

This 18-minute VHS videotape introduces Data in a Day (DD), a tool that brings parents, teachers, and students together as researchers to collect and analyze data about their school. It shows scenes of DD being used in diverse school settings (elementary, secondary, dual-language, rural, urban, and suburban) as a way for a broad segment of the…

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), through the Education Statistics Services Institute, supported the research in this report to help frame future discussions about the use of video research techniques in educational settings. This paper addresses the context of technological, legal, and ethical change facing researchers who use…

In a third-grade classroom, a 3-week-long study was conducted on the pros, cons, and effects of three particular spelling strategies and activities. By focusing on two specific spelling strategies--phonemic awareness and word identification--the study hoped to indicate that conventional rote learning, drilling, and memorization do not help…

A qualitative research conversation needs to include a critical examination of a study's relational dimension. Excerpts are presented from two doctoral dissertations that discuss the nature of the researcher-participant relationships formed through the studies. The first dissertation, "Beyond the Yellow Brick Road: Educational Portraits of…

This paper, by the President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, advances the need for scholarship in teaching. Just as research is not done until it has been shared, this is true also of scholarship in teaching: it is not private, but public; it is made available to and is critically reviewed by peers; it can be built upon…

Discussing how the National Reading Panel is searching to gain valuable perspectives and insights from practitioners and other stakeholders engaged in the teaching and learning of reading, this paper considers insight from practitioners outside of the panel members. It reviews the major concepts discussed at five regional meetings of the National…

Teacher education can not be allowed to remain in its present blissful state of ignorance and irrationality. The time is ripe for a rigorous assessment. (Editor)

In order to determine the extent to which institutions offering Master's programs in education offer courses which are similar in emphases and content, and which develop similar research competencies in Master's candidates, the design and findings of a 1955 study of graduate schools in the Mid-Western U.S. are summarized. (Author/JM)

Article present a brief inventory of some issues which will demand a reassessment and a change in teacher performance. (Author)

Sex role, professionalism, multiple functions, and inter-disciplinary conflicts are the major role problems depicted in this paper. The author concludes with a summary of the problems and suggestions for coping with them. (Author)

Paper presented at a conference on Research into Education, convened by the Australian Council for Educational Research (May 18-23, 1967).

With a presidential election only one year away, now is the time for educators and educational researchers to become acquainted with and involved in legislative and policy initiatives that can improve education. (GC)

Seven institutional research maxims based on research and theory about how people cognitively process information are discussed: more may not be better; augment humans with models; chunk data wisely; know decision-makers; heuristics are not always helpful; arrange tables by patterns; and accept negative evidence and new hypotheses. (Author/MLW)

Review of selected studies on use of social science information indicates that social scientists tend to use private sources and informal networks rather than libraries; value of citation studies as guides to library collection building is disputed; and machine access to social science databases is increasing. Eighty references are cited. (EJS)