This report is among the first to gather data on what really works to increase under-represented students interest and success in quantitatively based occupations. The report also compiles specific recommendations based on that data. Data from a variety of sources show that although African American, Hispanic, and American Indian students who go…

The goal of scaling up of educational innovation is to produce robust, effective, replicable outcomes. This report addresses requirements to support scale-up of scientifically vetted innovation (or new ideas that are built on the findings of quality research and development). In this report, a number of issues are considered: the context of…

Considered rehabilitation programs that are designed to provide various services to the handicapped and the effect of implementing a communications network. (RK)

Today's white researchers are perhaps counterproductive in black communities not because they are white, but because they are poorly trained: equally if not more important are the values which the researcher acquires as a result of his professional training. (Author/JM)

Attempts to delineate some grounds for expansion of the knowledge base within the field of minority studies and more generally within sociology: minority research is seen as one acute instance of a general malaise in sociology. (Author/JM)

Article concentrates on historians who are becoming proficient in utilizing computer technology for research purposes. (RK)

A primary objective of the utilization of historical research in teaching American History is to develop the students' ability to locate needed information when he wants it and in relation to the issue that has motivated the search. (Author)

The author seeks to clarify the aims and values of status studies, such as the IEA Study of Mathematics Achievement, which deals primarily with administrative variables. He states the value of such a study is in providing administrators with a basis for decision making. (Author/CT)

One major outcome was the opportunity to utilize institutional data as the basis for studying institutional strengths and weaknesses and developing specific program ideas of both a short and long range basis. (Author)

Some guidelines offered to law schools showing interest in law-related research studies based on the investigation of human behavior. (IR)

An attempt to empirically test conflicting hypotheses on whether scientific discoveries are the result of research by many or few scientists. The data, drawn from physics, supports the hypothesis that physicists making important discoveries depend on the research of a relatively small number of scientists. (Author/JB)