A melding of community professionals, graduate students, and sociology faculty to identify and study urban community problems proved to be a viable technique for an experimental seminar program. (Author/KM)

Outlines simple statistical procedures that may be effectively used in several ecology exercises suitable for secondary school science classes. (JR)

Project ICE is a regional, multidisciplinary, k-12 environmental education program that stresses student involvement. Four major project objectives and twelve unifying concepts for the curriculum are listed. The role of the teacher, project services, and available resources are discussed. Several specific examples illustrate student involvement…

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of a specific method of bacterial identification and suggests some modifications or improvements. The approach is presented as being suitable for obtaining information about the diversity of bacterial types on student fieldwork. (Author/EB)

Listed and described are wilderness outings available in 1975 through the Sierra Club. These include: Family Trips; Underwater Exploration; Bicycle Trips; Water Trips; Hawaiian and Alaskan Trips; Foreign Trips; High-Light Trips; Saddle-Light Trips; Knapsack Trips; Service Trips; Burro Trips and Spring Trips. Trip costs and reservations are…

Qualitative research procedures may be characterized by the practice of empiricism that is sensitive to individual perspectives of reality. The many techniques that may be used are malleable and situation-specific in their design--contingent on those aspects of social phenomena that are chosen to be studied. Practical curriculum design for…

Computer assisted instruction is beginning to have an important role in the rapidly expanding field of continuing education for health science professionals. At the present time, there are 22 medical specialty boards, all of which require or are about to require some form of continuing medical education for re-certification, and studies are being…

Anthropological fieldwork is characterized as the most human methodology of the social sciences. Fieldwork brings the researcher into intimate relationships with the host people and facilitates perception of the unexpected activity of general social processes and understanding the initially perplexing conduct of the hosts. Fieldwork also has…

IN A SOCIAL SCIENCE FIELD RESEARCH PROJECT 80 YOUTH IN THE BEDFORD-STUYVESANT AREA OF BROOKLYN WILL BE TRAINED TO GATHER DATA ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY AND WILL BE TAUGHT TO CODE AND EVALUATE THEIR FINDINGS. FOLLOWING THE COMPLETION OF THE COMMUNITY SURVEY, ONE-HALF OF THE TRAINEES WILL CONTINUE IN A 6-MONTH TRAINING PROGRAM IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION,…

THE ANTHROPOLOGIST, THE DESCRIPTIVE LINGUIST, AND THE AUTHOR OF A LANGUAGE TEXT HAVE DIFFERENT GOALS IN RECORDING LANGUAGES IN THE FIELD. THE ANTHROPOLOGIST/ETHNOGRAPHER, HOWEVER, CAN ASSEMBLE FIELD TAPES WHICH WILL NOT ONLY FULFILL HIS PURPOSE BUT WILL ALSO SERVE AS A BASIS FOR DESCRIPTIVE STUDY AND AS RAW MATERIAL FOR A PEDAGOGICAL TREATMENT OF…

This study examined the ways in which the spontaneous imaginative play and other social behaviors of 3- and 4-year-old children are affected by the frequency and patterns of their television viewing. The subjects were 141 children from predominantly white middle class homes. Pretesting was done to get an estimate of IQ (Peabody Picture Vocabulary…

Qualitative/naturalistic inquiry intends to discover whatever naturally occurring order exists rather than to test various theories or conceptual frameworks held by the investigator. Naturalistic, ecological data are urgently needed concerning the behavior of educational administrators. Such data can considerably change the knowledge base of the…

This paper describes a study of managerial behavior in educational organizations that focused on managerial attention as an organizational coupling mechanism. Structured observation was used to collect minute-by-minute time allocation protocols for five first-line education program managers over 20 working days, and these protocols were analyzed…

Variables that schools can not directly control are predictors of a significant portion of the achievement differences of children, yet some schools seem to be operating significantly better or worse than predicted in regard to pupil achievement. This observation study represents an effort to look more closely at schools in which actual pupil…