A study measured the influence of stereotypic wording and questionnaire format of attitude surveys. Findings reaffirmed earlier studies reporting the importance of format. Both response distributions and correlations between racial and gender stereotypes were shown to be sensitive to question format. (Author/DB)

A re-analysis of evaluation data concerning the Emergency School Aid Act shows that findings of the original evaluators are open to multiple interpretations. (JKS)

Observing that a lack of focus in rehabilitation research has resulted in a conglomeration of diverse problems, methodologies, interpretations, and applications, the author suggests striving for unification of effort throughout the field by overcoming three impediments in three areas (political, logistical, and heuristics) and by building…

The authors assess and illustrate the problems of incorporating an evaluative component into social programs using a number of examples from the field of alcohol studies. They outline a series of steps that are necessary for a resolution of the problem. (Author)

Points out the need for histories that take mass communication as their subject and include journalism as a part of that larger topic; describes concerns shared by mass communication history and the field of American studies. (GW)

Research in counseling has fallen far short of its goals. This is partly due to the inherent difficulty of doing research in counseling and partly due to attitudes toward research in counseling. The solution is not to relax the rigor but to show greater concern for sound research design. (Author)

Discusses principles of human development which are durable across changes in time, culture, and cohort. Analyzes the form these principles are likely to take, the limitations and strengths they are likely to display, and the process by which they are likely to be discovered. (Author/JMB)

Focuses on specific problems of being a female field researcher in relation to general methodological issues such as the establishment and maintenance of rapport and research relationships. Observations from twelve research studies are used to exemplify these problems. (Author/AM)

Two statistical characteristics of the Matching Familiar Figures test which produce methodological problems in reflection-impulsivity research are discussed. (BRT)

Discusses the difficulty of predicting wave structure of two phase gas-liquid flow in pipes. (SL)

Describes the National Science Foundation's (NSF) program designed to replace the Research Applied to National Needs (RANN) program. (SL)

The authors contend that the experimental psychology of mental retardation suffers from methatheoretical and methodological weaknesses, preeminently the failure to consider the ecology of mental retardation. (CL)

Attempting to characterize the research literature on schooling, this paper discusses six possible inquiry perspectives termed analytic, portrait, intentional, structural, societal, and narrative. These perspectives are then analyzed and related to forms of knowledge about educating children. While preferring the narrative approach, the article…