Guidelines are set forth regarding the conduct of research involving staff members as subjects or dealing with the Montgomery County (PA) Intermediate Unit as a whole. The term research is seen to include all types of data gathering that occurs within the unit, including multiple Intermediate Unit research, gathering data on the Intermediate Unit…

This paper is a preliminary proposal to develop the theory and design for "coaches" for computer games, to implement prototypes, and to experiment with their ability to convey important intellectual skills. The focus of this project will be restricted to developing a coach for a single example of an intellectual game called Wumpus. It is…

Fourteen moral judgment intervention studies, representing all those presently known to the author, were reviewed and evaluated. All used Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT) to evaluate Kolhberg's stage theory of moral development. The DIT had been administered in programs for social studies and civics, general psychological development, and moral…

A recurrent theme in the literature on black identity is self-hate. Black people are portrayed as suffering from one of the following four conditions; (1) low self-esteem; (2) impaired identity formation; (3) pathological environmental adaptation; and/or (4) low intellectual functioning. However, research is emerging which questions many of these…

The multivariate analysis of variance approach to the analysis of data from repeated measures designs that include covariates is reviewed and contrasted with univariate methods. Assumptions necessary for meaningful interpretation of the results of the multivariate analysis are discussed and contrasted to those of the univariate approaches. An…

The state of the art of research on child development in New Zealand is reported in this paper. It is noted that while many courses in child development are taught in New Zealand, few incentives or resources for a viable and continuous child development research program are provided. Perhaps because of restricted opportunities for research and…

Administrative characteristics for 301 nationally representative institutions are related to faculty support of activism (in attitude and in behavior) and indicate that faculty may provide the link between the incidence of campus unrest and institutional characteristics, independent of student body attributes. The consistently observed…

In recent years there has developed a wide-spread recognition that there are three distinct structural or logical forms than an assessment of merit, value, or worth may take--evaluation of exemplified value, evaluation of instrumental value, and evaluation of contributory value. These forms provide a logical organization and structure for all of…

This document discusses increasing public interest in education and the image problem educational research has with the public. Educational research and development is a new field which is still finding its way. The following recommendations can help meet the general public's expectations and establish a more productive relationship with users:…

Practitioners are not afforded the luxury of ideal laboratory conditions. The natural settings of the classroom, the school, or the school system place constraints on the type of data obtainable; hence, educators must work with less than an ideal experimental design. Four evaluation designs used in natural settings are described. Each involves an…

Water pollution techniques and practices, including data analysis, interpretation and display are described in this book intended primarily for the biologist inexperienced in this work, and for sanitary engineers, chemists, and water pollution control administrators. The characteristics of aquatic environments, their biota, and the effects of…

In 1966 an intensive 5-day workshop was held to assist professional staff in the Ohio Department of Education in gaining skills in educational research and evaluation procedures and techniques. The 32 participants were administrative, supervisory or consultative personnel, and the training was intended to help them to communicate with each other…

The rapidly increasing amount of information retrieval experimentation necessitates that considerable attention be paid to the problems of experimental methodology. The authors feel that the generalized and well-known experience in the physical, life and behavioral sciences concerning the role of methodology in scientific research must be applied…

This annotated bibliography was developed from a survey of the Professors of Educational Research (PER), a special interest group within the American Educational Research Association, to gather faculty recommendations in a standard manner that would permit comparisons of texts within subject areas. Subject areas addressed are introduction to…

William Stephenson's Q methodology has been linked to the future of communications research by some and condemned as treacherous by others. This study reviews the uses of Q in published mass communications research over the past 20 years. The survey found 30 mass communications studies published in English in the scholarly journals related to mass…