The author argues that the fields of mental illness and mental retardation would profit from attempts to organize their phenomena under a common set of concepts. (GW)

Reviews research studies of the i.t.a. and suggests areas for further investigation. (MM)

Three important problems for research on community tenure among former mental patients are identified. (Author)

A candid appraisal of the difficulties faced in establishing a research and education division at John Adams High School. (Author)

Calls for debaters and judges to understand methodological analysis used in debate rounds. Examines several argumentation and debate texts for approaches to the use of statistical evidence. Offers suggestions for handling methodological challenges and a method for weighing such arguments. (PD)

Proposes that documents such as contracts, policies, etc. can be evaluated adequately only by analyzing how they are used by consumers and then designing a testing approach that reflects their usability rather than their readability, difficulty, etc. Tested versions of a loan contract to compare differences among evaluation procedures. (PD)

Two psychological experiments--Anderson and Shanteau (1970), Berkowitz and LePage (1967)--are reanalyzed to present the problem of the relative importance of low Type 1 error probability and high power when answering a research question by testing several statistical hypotheses. (Author/PN)

Problems that face evaluators, including field based evaluations, are discussed. The author states that open communication, access to data, and an ability to be accepted are paramount; knowledge of randomness, robustness and homoscedasticity may be secondary. (Author/PN)