Literature review revealed seven empirical articles exploring psychological functioning of color-deficient children. Analysis of literature indicated that equivocal nature of past research may be due to inadequate rationale explaining what outcome variables should be tied to color deficiency. Makes specific investigative recommendations to provide…

Provides a framework for researching entrepreneurship and describes enterprise training as a complex conjunction of the learning cycles of trainer and client. The delivery of training is seen as a joint learning experience in which trainer and client search for different context-related outcomes. (SK)

Summarizing the articles in this special issue on personal construct theory, the author discusses using career constructs to scan the environment and suggests future research needs. (SK)

Notes that literary journalism as a form of nonfiction prose remains largely unexplored by scholars. Recommends a number of questions for researchers to pursue. Postulates that the most fruitful investigations will explore literary journalism's ability to depict life being lived at a specific moment in a specific place. (SR)

Accomplishes three objectives: (1) to analyze the dimensions of agricultural education, (2) to summarize critiques of agricultural education research, and (3) to suggest strategies for focusing agricultural education research. (Author)

Introduces articles in special issue on families, poverty, and public policy. Provides context for considering results reported in articles by noting recent public policy, demographic, and socioeconomic trends that will influence poor families in the future. Briefly reviews and compares articles and discusses research agenda related to the…

Examines four major assumptions about change (accommodation, hope, truth, divine agent) which undergird Christian counseling. Discusses assumptions' application for therapy and research. Argues lack of careful assumptive reflection among theorists of Christian therapy leads to numerous pragmatic and scientific difficulties, including dearth of…

Promotes an interest in the scientific observation of handwriting. Maintains that, when dealing with documents whose authenticity is suspect and under investigation, a methodical and complete description of each written document would allow researchers to solve identification problems, investigate group characteristics, and bring forth new…

A review of the research literature on parents with disabilities and their nondisabled dependents found only 93 references since 1975 and, particularly, very little research on the effects of disability on the parents. (DB)

Uses the idea of "framing" as a case study of scattered conceptualization across academic disciplines. Identifies and makes explicit various uses of "framing." Argues that the field of communication can develop a core of knowledge that could translate into research models contributing to social theory in the largest sense. (SR)

Proposes five challenges of associational organization. Suggests that voluntary associations are conceptually and organizationally distinguishable from the bureaucratic service-delivering agencies of the broader nonprofit sector and that they merit specific research attention to build descriptive data and specialist theory. (Author)

Coordination is a key issue in the design of organizational structures and processes. In this article, the authors propose a body of concepts that support the modeling and computer simulation of organizational processes and organizational coordination. Three aspect models are described that highlight different coordination aspects, and future…

Advocates greater empirical research on ethics in health care by social-work researchers. A theoretical framework is presented as a heuristic device to stimulate research on a range of topics. Argues that by demonstrating empirically that their interventions improve ethical outcomes, social-work researchers can provide ammunition to support social…

A Delphi panel of 37 tech-prep subject matter experts identified a national research agenda for tech prep. Highest priorities were as follows: institutionalization of tech prep into the higher education system, instruction based on cognitive science research, and nontraditional teaching methods. (SK)

Compares a user-defined passage feedback system to a document feedback system for information retrieval, based on TREC (Text Retrieval Conference) guidelines. Highlights include a description of IRIS, an interactive retrieval system; text processing; ranking; term weights; feedback models, including the adaptive linear model; and suggestions for…