Through children's self-assessment, teachers and parents have the opportunity to clarify what the children see as their strengths in learning, whether the learning goals that teachers and parents set for a child are shared by the child, and what skills the child feels he or she needs to improve. This paper examines how young children's…

The expanding body of research on children and adults born to interracial/ethnic couples is in response, no doubt, to the changing demographics of the past three decades. This paper discusses the epistemological shift caused by these demographic changes. Many of the studies conducted since the 1980s on the contemporary experiences of mixed…

The author cites examples of exploitation of the Black Community by researchers and proposes strategies for its elimination. (RWP)

Presents a broad overview of the methodological and definitional problems confronting researchers in the teaching of English. (RB)

This is the response of the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association's Research Committee to the research report, From Student to Practitioner: Professionalism and De-Professionalism in Rehabilitation Counseling, Working Paper No. 7. The authors of this critique present certain criticisms of the paper's methodology and validity and offer…

Discusses a collection of reports made by educational planners entitled Canadian Higher Education in the Seventies.'' (PG)

The experimental Mother-Child Home Program, aimed at the prevention of educational disadvantaged," was shown to be effective in repeated studies away from the home base of the Verbal Interaction Project. (Author/SP)

In experimentation where change in X produces a change in Y, the researcher must identify, measure, and control intervening variables by experimental design or statistical procedure. (Author)

Research in sex education is essential so that the many questions of concern to parents and educators might be rationally answered, but in an atmosphere of political controversy, both research and education are likely to suffer. (Author)

The author contends that psychology must have a sound basis if it is to develop properly, and a phenomenological perspective can provide a more adequate frame of reference. A wholly different way of looking at psychological subject matter and methods is being suggested and thus, standard natural scientific criteria are not applicable. (Author)

Discusses articles by Richard Rystrom in the Winter and Spring 1970 issues of the Journal of Reading Behavior. Questions the validation procedures and statistical evidence behind the author's model of reading comprehension. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

Some of the shortcomings of counselling research are discussed and ways in which graduate programs in counselling can reduce the gap between research and practice are given. (CG)