This article examines educational policy as it relates to the political socialization of children and the utilization of available research on the topic. (Editor)

Purpose of study was to determine how students evaluated the affective behavior of their teacher when that behavior reflected positive, neutral, and negative affect, respectively. (Author)

The central purposes of this study were to discover whether musically unsophisticated seventh grade pupils could be taught to keep track of the unfolding forms of unfamiliar minuets and movements in sonata-allegro form, and the extent to which successful tracking is related to the observation of briefer musical elements. (Author)

An examination of the weaknesses of the common statistical approaches suggests that change scores are unnecessary and often even inappropriate for statistical studies. Alternative statistical procedures are suggested. (Author/VW)

Article, written by members of the graduate seminar entitled Empirical Studies in Communication" at the University of Colorado, presumes that research in communication is a part of a process directed toward the formulation of an adequate explanation of human communication behavior. (Author/DR)

A systematic approach to statewide evaluation of career guidance, counseling and placement. (Editor)

Social researchers under the influence of social stereotypes sometimes make generalizations which are partly true and partly false, and tend to use deceptive research models which in turn increase the number and influence of stereotypes. (JM)

First of a 2-part series concerned with: different types of inferential errors, single- vs. multi-institutional studies (MIS), longitudinal vs. cross-sectional data, statistical designs, measurement error effects, and measuring student-environment interaction effects. The best data is obtained from longitudinal MIS on student inputs and outputs,…

Investigation supported in part by a research grant from the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration.