In the spirit of self-determination, Indian people should be the ones to write about Indian education. Only American Indians and Alaska Natives themselves have the depth of experience and understanding and the insider view necessary to ask the appropriate questions and find appropriate answers. Discusses steps needed to alter the direction of…

Addresses three aspects of professional development reflected in scholarly activities related to research and service: examining effective ways to deal with less than universally positive reviews (stumbling blocks for many in efforts to publish their research); providing guidelines for dealing with reviewers (often critical gatekeepers on the path…

Discusses how teachers in six primary classrooms taught children to synthesize information (regarding reading, social studies, math, science, and social skills). Notes the central role that talk played in both the childrens' learning to synthesize and in the teachers' clarifying what they were researching and how they could best help the children.…

Explains Web search agents as tools that apply intelligent agent software technology for the purpose of automating, improving, and speeding up online search operations. Topics include intelligent desktop agents; search agent marketplace; comparing Web search agents; subjective evaluations; and use by researchers. (LRW)

Seeks to explore learning, development and academic success, using postgraduate research students' experiences and relating them to submission and completion rates. Examines the perceptions and circumstances of a sample of postgraduate research students via questionnaire and interviews. Significant associations between data are presented, together…

Reviews the Basic Education and Life Skills program, which involves University of the South Pacific member countries, highlighting teacher involvement in collaborative action research to promote professional development at the school level. The paper describes the nature of teachers' involvement and shares insights from their experiences as…

A Canadian Indigenous researcher discusses the need to link research objectives and methodologies to community needs and context; the meaningful integration of knowledge obtained through research into Indigenous ways of knowing and being; interview methods; and the role of trust and accountability in researcher-interviewee relations. (SV)

Examines the history and diversity of research on interpersonal expectancy effects, showing that the expectations of psychological researchers, teachers, courtroom judges, business executives, and health care providers can unintentionally affect the responses of their research participants, students, jurors, employees, and patients. Uses…

Defines validation as a process by which researchers evaluate the trustworthiness of a study through a tacit understanding of actual practices. Proposes an approach to validation based on the concept of exemplars--concrete models of research practice. Uses three studies of narrative--life history, oral narrative, and narrative strategy--as…

One of the reasons women's history no longer seems as cohesive is that scholars no longer focus only on the importance of gender in shaping women's lives, but also on race and class. Scholars also use competing methodologies, and many are abandoning theories that once helped define the field. (MLW)

The teacher-researcher split must be overcome to help improve schools and instruction. Research and practice integration will involve attitudinal changes accomplished through specific activities to increase teacher reflection, familiarity with the knowledge base, inquiry, and collegiality. Researchers, teacher-training institutions, and school…

Discusses teachers who question the happenings in their classrooms and answer their questions through classroom research. Argues that these teachers will continue to learn about their students and the teaching/learning that occurs within their classrooms, schools, and profession. Offers suggestions on how to initiate a teacher/researcher effort.…

Outlines an initial framework, five orientations and eight dimensions, based on information derived from the study of text analysis. Maintains that art education researchers need a multilayered framework to facilitate design of research that addresses the analysis of complex multidimensional data. (KM)

Describes the effects on the teacher and students of a collaborative teaching/research project in which the basic-writing students researched their own writing with the teacher. Notes that the basic writers became more interested in their own writing and learning. (RS)

This article presents results of a survey of 10 teachers which was designed to explore teachers' experiences with action research. Concrete examples of what it's like to do action research are viewed as a valuable resource for teachers and for teacher educators who teach action research courses. (IAH)