In an effort to create a polyphonic critical response to the roles of the researcher and the researched in classroom-based literacy research, this paper is formatted as a play--indented parts are direct quotes from others spoken by the speakers. It articulates questions of classroom literacy research as it considers the methods, goals, and…

This book helps students become better and more informed consumers of published research studies. The book provides students with a systematic approach for first identifying whether an article or report should be considered "research," and then understanding the type of research it is and using criteria to judge the research. The book is meant to…

This book gives step-by-step instructions on how to design, implement, and present an evaluation study for a museum or other settings for informal education, and it presents guidelines for studying the experiences of visitors in informal educational settings. The chapters are: (1) "Planning an Evaluation Project"; (2) "Informal…

Estimates of the number and proportions of students who are home schooled vary. This report explores differences in survey design and execution that may have contributed to the discrepancies between the estimates for the October 1994 Current Population Survey Education Supplement (CPS:Oct94) and the National Household Education Survey, Parent and…

The present studies explored the effects of several variables upon subjects' ability to combine and organize information from different sentences as well as their ability to retain that information. (Author/RK)

The present investigation was designed to compare the behavior of 6- and 9-month-old infants; visual as well as manipulative responses were recorded. (Author/RK)

The approach of the present experiment is a developmental one in that it attempts to relate the preferences of children for certain selected stimuli, letters and letter-like shapes, to their age and experience. (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to provide further evidence with respect to the effects of presentation method in serial learning. (Author)

The present experiment examined the choice behavior of humans during the learning of a reversal (R) shift as an empirical test of attentional explanations of the overtraining reversal effect. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present experiment was to examine questions on information specification raised by P. R. Laughlin. Ss were asked to solve one attribute-identification problem, using the selection paradigm. (Author/RK)

This study reported on the feedback received from electric response boxes for developing in musically unsophisticated grade VII children the ability to keep track of the forms of minuets and sonata-allegro movements, and simultaneously to notice more elementary aspects of the music tracked. (Author/RK)

Emphasizes neglected problems in the study of mass communication and socialization and suggests some new lines of theorizing and research. (TO)

Study examined the effect of individual goal-setting conferences on academic achievement and attitudes in an ongoing educational setting. (Author)

A presentation of arguments demonstrating piaget's sensorimotor stages in Hebb's terms, and the suggestion for performing a computer test. This paper is an early progress report of an attempt to translate some plausible arguments into a rigorous demonstration. (Author)

Author presents his theories on educational research and seeks to stimulate other research theorists to build better theories about the patterning of research to meet the needs of a field of social practice. (Author/GB)