Examines American Indian communities' attitudes toward social science research and Anglo social science researchers. Discusses the positive role that Indian social scientists can play in improving the quantity and quality of research conducted in Indian communities. (Author/GC)

Evaluates past work by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). Suggests 12 areas for future ATTW work. (RL)

Research in written composition must not only face up to the fact that composition tests must meet the same requirements for validity and reliability that other tests must meet, but it also faces the unique difficulty of figuring out a way to give a valid and reliable pretest. (DD)

Suggests that social science information services generally follow patterns set by science information services a decade or so earlier. Topics discussed include library research, the structure of communication and knowledge in the social sciences, communication patterns, shifts in methodology, and reassessment of achievements. (DB)

This state of the art review of economic knowledge focuses on price theory, areas of disagreement and agreement within the discipline of economics, the behavioral basis of price theory, and explanations of why economists cannot predict the short-run behavior of the economy. (DB)

Examines how rational expectation models can help describe and predict trends within an economy and explains research needs within the discipline of economics which will enable economists to make more valid predictions. (DB)

Illustrates how knowledge derived from the discipline of economics can be used to help shed light on social problems such as poverty, exploitation, and alienation, and can help decision makers form policy to minimize these and similar problems. (DB)

Concerns the scarcity of literature on training practices for group leadership and the lack of training research. Group leadership training is a relatively new field. Clarification of group counseling functions and more research in group counseling will bring the development of more sophisticated approaches to leadership training. (NRB)

The use of sematography, or Bliss Symbols, is considered as an alternative communication mode for children whose handicap is such that standard communication strategies are not possible. (Author/SBH)

Reports on a study of the relationship between the racial composition of television casts and their portrayal of black Americans. Black characters in all-black television casts displayed a significantly greater number of stereotypic black characteristics, more personal and family problems, and tended to have low social status. (Author/RM)

Stressed in the symposium paper are research problems in learning disabilities, and proposed are solutions including behavioral definitions of the population under study, the discontinuation of the ex post facto research correlating psychosocial and etiological factors with special education labels, and adherence to basic rules of good research…

In answering responses to his paper on research problems in learning disabilities, the author reiterates his belief that more experimental designs based on observable behaviors are needed. (DB)

Discusses some areas which require the immediate attention of research in adult education, including policymaking and program planning, teaching methods, training needs of staff, evaluation, attitudes, motivation, production of teaching material, administration and organization, adult literacy, and functional literacy. (TA)

Inattention to social systems in organizations has led researchers to underestimate the importance of culture--shared norms, values, and assumptions--in how organizations function. The failure of organizational learning can be understood by examining typical responses to change by members of several broad occupational cultures (operators,…

Describes Douglas McGregor's group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1940s and the group at Carnegie's Graduate School of Industrial Administration in the 1960s. Both showed the lively, task-obsessed characteristics of "hot groups." Both occupied participants' hearts and minds, held to high standards, and were extremely…