Music teachers must learn to read and analyze research studies and apply the research findings to their teaching. The author's experience in conducting workshops to help teachers analyze research reports shows that teachers are capable of making transfers and generalizing from research results to their own situation. (RM)

Music education needs a support structure that will help researchers to stay active and help music teachers apply the results of good research. The Special Research Interest Groups (SRIGs) of the Music Educators National Conference provide such a support structure. The different SRIGs are described. (RM)

Educational research is said to influence classroom teaching by affecting the design of curricular materials, providing a model of human learning, and furnishing data applicable to solutions of particular problems. (GW)

Ways in which the home economics teacher may use research are noted, and the basic components of research are described and summarized in a checklist for use as a guide in evaluating research. Components covered include the problem, the sample, data collection techniques, data analysis methods, and interpretation of findings. (JT)

The Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, with support from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, has conducted a study of the factors that have influenced the educational policy landscape during the past decade. Using a two-stage survey methodology, leading education-policy experts were asked first to identify and then to rate highly…

This research uses the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS) to examine student misbehavior in the context of individual, familial, and institutional influences. The NELS is the third longitudinal study of students and schools conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, and the NELS surveys encompass not only students…

Congress began funding the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) program in 1998 to stimulate whole school reform in low-achieving schools. Schools receiving CSRD funding are required to evaluate the reforms implemented and the student results achieved. In response to interest among educators and researchers, a national research…

This guide explains some of the intellectual property rights of part-time college faculty members and the circumstances under which faculty can defend intellectual property rights. The term "intellectual property" refers to proprietary information, materials, or products, the owner of which may possess intellectual property rights under trademark,…

With clear and concrete examples from elementary and high schools, this book helps you effectively gather, analyze, and use data to improve student learning. It demonstrates how to make better decisions, identify root causes of problems, and communicate and report results.

This study was designed to identify components and implied sequence for teaching those composition skills identified by experts and to determine whether or not these research decisions are reflected in the textbooks used by elementary teachers. The textbooks and the authorities' views were found to disagree and be of insufficient assistance to…

The trend of outside agencies formulating important education issues may lead to an increased weakness in terms of educational bodies being capable of directing their own destiny. (GB)

Implementing survey recommendations is a perennial administrative problem. This article suggests that giving more attention to the methods of conceiving, commissioning, and conducting surveys and communicating survey results could produce more effective implementation of the findings at the decisionmaking level. (Author)

The article discusses the relationship between research and educational practice, and suggests that the lag between research and implementation be remedied by making the progress of the individual handicapped child the target of research. (GW)

The assumption that education is a means of achieving equality in our society has been brought into question by social science. (DM)

Suggests criteria which an ideal first course in speech might meet: (1) focus on the elements typical in all speech communication behavior, (2) delete formal individual oral performance, and (3) utilize the empirical data produced by the behavioral scientists.'' (Author)