Identifies 10 broad-based trends that seem to characterize counseling psychology. Notes that trends focus on changes having occurred in research and training; special populations; assessment, counseling, and counseling training and supervision; vocational psychology; and Division 17 of American Psychological Association. Presents evidence…

Study of misclassification of suicide as other causes of death examined computerized California death certificates, 1966-90. Concluded that suicides are misallocated to at least five other causes of death (two of which have not been previously considered in literature) and are most likely to be underreported for groups with low official suicide…

Discussion of federally-funded research and development (R&D) focuses on a knowledge-management framework for diffusing the results of the R&D. Based on the results of a 10-year study of knowledge diffusion in the aerospace industry, the authors maintain that U.S. competitiveness will be enhanced if knowledge-management strategies are…

Includes information about the U.S. textile industry, including apparel, careers, management, marketing, manufacturing, research and development, and quality control. (JOW)

Review of the literature on psychopharmacology and mental retardation from 1990-1999 found most studies had major methodological flaws. Also, most drug administrations were not based in science, were not evaluated appropriately, and generally did not follow best practices for treatment of persons with mental retardation. A table lists the studies…

Emphasizes the need to focus educational technology (ET) research on design as well as on technology. Suggests that what should distinguish the field of educational technology is designing with technology, and conducting research that examines the relationship between design and technology. Discusses technology as enabling new designs, not driving…

Presents an interview with Elizabeth Liddy, president of TextWise, an information access and analytics company. Background on TextWise is provided; advanced search engines are discussed; TextWise products and projects are described; and the changing role of information professionals is considered. (MES)

Discusses the experiences surrounding the application for and reception of federal awards designed to assist new investigators in the transition from doctoral research to building a federally-funded research program. Details the extensive preparation needed to pursue such a grant and outlines the different phases of implementing the research…

Discusses sponsorship by the Library of Congress (LC) for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Digital Libraries Initiative--Phase 2, which is supporting innovative digital-library research and applications. The objective of the multiyear program is to provide leadership in research fundamental to the next generation of digital libraries. (LRW)

When funding for the federal research and development center, which was created to promote improved evaluation in the schools, was discontinued, members and participants in the annual National Evaluation Institute formed a new organization, the Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE). Interested…

Presents a biography of John Seely Brown, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Interests include formation of corporate strategy; corporate research, including organizational learning, ethnographies of the workplace, and complex adaptive systems; and human learning and the management of…

Case studies of preservice teacher education in postcompulsory education and of a key skills development project are examples of practitioner-relevant action research. They suggest that further education is not so much underresearched as undervalued, and they fill a need for evidence-based policy and practice. (Contains 35 references.) (SK)

A broad view of mathematics education takes it as the study of how people learn and do mathematics. Starting with this view, the actual and potential relationships of mathematics education as a research discipline to mathematics as a field of knowledge and activity and to the mathematicians carrying out that activity are analyzed. This leads to…

Telegraphy, the distant ancestor of Internet and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), was invented by Samuel Morse in 1838. One year later, William Grove invented the fuel cell. Although numerous highly successful innovations stemming from telegraphy may be observed, the development of fuel cells has been insignificant, slow, and erratic…

The process of a school becoming more inclusive involves teacher learning. The Economic and Social Research Council Teaching and Learning Research Programme (ESRC TLRP) research and development Network "Understanding and Developing Inclusive Practices in Schools" presented an opportunity both to understand the nature of this learning and…