Administrative characteristics for 301 nationally representative institutions are related to faculty support of activism (in attitude and in behavior) and indicate that faculty may provide the link between the incidence of campus unrest and institutional characteristics, independent of student body attributes. The consistently observed…

In recent years there has developed a wide-spread recognition that there are three distinct structural or logical forms than an assessment of merit, value, or worth may take--evaluation of exemplified value, evaluation of instrumental value, and evaluation of contributory value. These forms provide a logical organization and structure for all of…

This document discusses increasing public interest in education and the image problem educational research has with the public. Educational research and development is a new field which is still finding its way. The following recommendations can help meet the general public's expectations and establish a more productive relationship with users:…

Practitioners are not afforded the luxury of ideal laboratory conditions. The natural settings of the classroom, the school, or the school system place constraints on the type of data obtainable; hence, educators must work with less than an ideal experimental design. Four evaluation designs used in natural settings are described. Each involves an…

Water pollution techniques and practices, including data analysis, interpretation and display are described in this book intended primarily for the biologist inexperienced in this work, and for sanitary engineers, chemists, and water pollution control administrators. The characteristics of aquatic environments, their biota, and the effects of…

In 1966 an intensive 5-day workshop was held to assist professional staff in the Ohio Department of Education in gaining skills in educational research and evaluation procedures and techniques. The 32 participants were administrative, supervisory or consultative personnel, and the training was intended to help them to communicate with each other…

The rapidly increasing amount of information retrieval experimentation necessitates that considerable attention be paid to the problems of experimental methodology. The authors feel that the generalized and well-known experience in the physical, life and behavioral sciences concerning the role of methodology in scientific research must be applied…

This annotated bibliography was developed from a survey of the Professors of Educational Research (PER), a special interest group within the American Educational Research Association, to gather faculty recommendations in a standard manner that would permit comparisons of texts within subject areas. Subject areas addressed are introduction to…

William Stephenson's Q methodology has been linked to the future of communications research by some and condemned as treacherous by others. This study reviews the uses of Q in published mass communications research over the past 20 years. The survey found 30 mass communications studies published in English in the scholarly journals related to mass…

The purpose of this pilot study at the University of Illinois was to survey and establish patterns of student expenditures, sources and amounts of income, and the relationship of income to expenditures over time. Using the above as dependent variables, the primary analytic problem was to determine the extent to which student income and…

Three aspects of organization -- structure, resources, and leadership attitudes -- were examined in a longitudinal study of 16 health and welfare agencies to determine which factors best predicted the rate of program innovation. Study results revealed that occupational specialization was the strongest structural predictor, that professional…

In Part I of this paper certain epistemological considerations are reviewed as a source of suggestions on bases that might be used in classifying research, and the problem of validity of knowledge is discussed. In Part II the attempt to apply these bases and the attempts to answer the particular questions concerning clinical intervention are…

The report describes the development of a package of training materials to enable instructional product developers to prepare first-draft materials. Five instructional techniques, derived from laboratory research and selected through a survey of eminent instructional psychologists, comprised the substance of the materials. The techniques were…

This is one of a series of eight short monographs intended to aid practicing educators in planning and conducting accountability programs in schools. This booklet discusses how to plan and conduct interviews appropriate to the objectives of a particular research or evaluation effort. Short sections focus in turn on advantages of interviews,…

Outlines the criticisms of science education research related to the following points: absence of an adequate theoretical framework, methodological shortcomings in design and evaluation, and inadequate attention to science-specific problems of learning and characteristics of the learner. (Author/GS)