The data tend to support the hypothesis that subjects debriefed prior to a psychology experiment tend to be suspicious of perceived experimenter expectancy cues and less likely to respond to such cues. (SD)

Rewritten and shortened version of presentation given at a symposium of the American Psychological Association meeting, New York 1966. (MS)

Report describes and makes a preliminary assessment of a data simulation computer program at the University of Michigan. (MF)

Reports on the design and results of an effort to change the organization style of a sales unit in a business organization. (LN)

Critically examines the research conducted by R. Weiss and M. Rein on broad-aim programs discussed in EA 500 479. (LN)

Examined trends in counseling research as represented in the contents of the JOURNAL OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY to identify the system of counseling psychology. The mechanical mirror or behavioral approach to research has been the most commonly occurring methodological design, followed in order by organic lamp, eclectic, and psychoanalytic designs.…

Institutions, individuals, policies, and interactions are identified as the four research perspectives that have guided most legislative studies and that could help to identify promising areas for future investigation of education issues. The discussion of each perspective includes a review of landmark research and comments on its contributions…

Much of educational administration research suffers from lack of conformity between data analysis and research design, inattention to the test/retest stability of measurement instruments, and the use of statistics for nominal or interval data with ordinal data, random-sample statistics with nonrandom samples, and unnecessarily complex statistical…

Sternberg (1981) presented correlations based on independent samples of about 25 cases each with a statistical comparison in a population parameter of zero and interpreted his results as if with appropriate tests. He needed to use a nonzero population parameter and compare for the difference between the z transformations. (Author/CM)

Sternberg's reply to paper Humphrey criticizes (see TM 507 045) includes: (1) invited position paper and detailed statistical testing would have been inappropriate; (2) Humphrey commits some of "misdeeds" of which he accuses Sternberg; (3) number of cases in the three nonentrenchment experiments are more than adequate for drawing conclusions; and…

Discusses background and theory underlying a design study for an interactive information retrieval system funded by the British Library Research and Development Department which will determine structural representations of anomalous states of knowledge (ASKs) underlying information needs. References are cited. (EJS)