This guide provides evaluators interested in new methods with a framework for determining the feasibility, utility, and effectiveness of the methods in field settings. To accomplish this intent, the body of this guide contains discussions of five checklists. Three of the checklists are to be used before a trial to determine the feasibility of one…

A Pennsylvania mining area's dirty air and water were once thought "natural," but environmental education is helping change that. (Editor)

Describes a bird-study and banding activity designed for students in urban and suburban areas. (PEB)

Given is information on a federally funded environmental education program based on field experience and community awareness. Problem-solving methods were used to involve students in local environmental issues. Field experiences included trips to the mountains and seashore and community projects in water quality, recycling, and nature trail…

Provided are suggestions for student investigations of life in swift stream communities, in slow stream areas and near a spring. (PEB)

Background information on pond habitats and on the food pyramid is provided. Two learning activities for studying a pond are suggested. (DT)

Examines several different media of communication to determine if the channel or the audience determines effectiveness. (RB)

Briefly relates activities undertaken by secondary school students in the Spokane, Washington, area relative to ecological activities which were surveyed via an interdisciplinary approach involving English, art, science, mathematics, history, and social studies classes. (PB)

Three issues must be addressed when discussing the standards needed to judge the methodological rigor of naturalistic approaches to administrative research. The first issue involves defining naturalistic inquiry. In contrast to the scientific paradigm, naturalistic inquiry emphasizes, first, the inseparability of variables or events from their…

Questions and issues surrounding ethnographic research in educational settings are discussed from the viewpoint of the research manager responsible for directing large-scale research projects. The parts of an ethnographic study include: (1) conceptualizing the research project and determining if ethnographic methods are called for; (2) recruiting…

The proliferation of additional responsibilities in health, welfare, and recreation suggests the justification of the conceptualization of the elementary school as a total institution. This research was undertaken to investigate the application of Goffman's concept of total institution to the public elementary school. An exploratory field study…

This training program was designed to serve as the first part of a two-stage concentrated course leading to the doctorate in educational research, and to train personnel for intermediate responsibility in national, state, and local educational research. Twenty young teachers, selected for dynamic personality, high intellectual caliber, and…