Investigators interested in conducting school health research face many challenges. This article focuses on an analysis of research designs and measurement issues that most frequently confront school health researchers. (Author/DF)

The use of large-N group comparison research methods based on a nomothetic model is compared with idiographic methods employing single-system designs and intensive study of the individual. Limitations of the nomothetic model and advantages of the idiographic approach are presented. (SK)

Notes that single-subject designs, developed in clinical settings, are now being used for diagnosis and instruction in the schools. Discusses their importance to the teacher. (FL)

Ethnoarchaeology (living archaeology) centers on the study of present day peoples in order to get a better understanding of the past. Describes a study in Kenya which involved collecting samples from an abandoned fishing campsite and interviewing fishermen who had lived there. Suggests approaches for future research. (CS)

Students critiqued research contained in the book "Rival Hypotheses" (Huck and Sandler, 1979), which contains studies dealing with knowledge claims of practical importance, e.g., the evidence that saccharine causes cancer. (RM)

Computer generated data representative of 16 Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Averages (ARIMA) models were used to compare the results of interrupted time-series analysis using: (1) the known model identification, (2) an assumed (l,0,0) model, and (3) an assumed (3,0,0) model as an approximation to the General Transformation approach. (Author/BW)

Discusses the evolution of the author's research program. Illustrates decisions made in choosing a research topic, discusses complexities of research, and personal triumphs and despairs encountered in the process. Discusses particular research projects and specific models and theoretic frameworks. (BH)

The author argues that he properly used the National Longitudinal Survey sample in his analysis which concluded that private schooling is not superior to public schooling with regard to student's academic achievement, a conclusion contrary to that reached by Coleman and Hoffer in their analysis of the same sample. (RM)

Repeated measures designs have traditionally been analyzed by the univariate mixed model approach, in which the repeated measures effect is tested against an error term based on the subject by treatment interaction. This paper considers an extension of this analysis to designs in which the individual repeated measures are multivariate. (Author/JKS)

A method is presented that allows multivariate comparability while making only minimal restrictions on randomization. This procedure is demonstrated in the context of assigning 63 aggregated units (schools) to 28 experimental and control conditions. Good comparability of groups for all primary main effects and interactions was verified for 15…

Describes the use of repeated-measures designs in the study of whole families, specifically differences in perception between family members. Addresses the specific advantages and disadvantages of these designs; analysis of variance and multivariate analysis of variance applications; and practical issues of assumptions, multiple comparison,…

Two representative family studies are reviewed to illustrate how they could have benefited from the inclusion of alcohol-related data. Three suggested alterations in methodology are offered to close this "alcohol gap." Lastly, the discussion offers several explanations for why alcohol abuse has been so uniformly ignored by family researchers.…

Describes how the faculty at one university strengthened the research dimension at their school of nursing. (TA)

The impossibility of getting totally objective curriculum evaluation research is examined. (DE)

This article attempts to clarify the Schaie-Baltes controversy dealing with the formulation of adequate developmental research design. Crucial to clarification is distinguishing between description and explanation of developmental change. (MS)