Briefly reviews significant moments in the history of early childhood education and urges that child advocates (1) raise consciousness about the importance of the early years, (2) generate new information to demonstrate program effectiveness, (3) build coalitions of support with other groups working with children, and (4) work to gain public…

Seven past presidents of the American Educational Research Association discuss trends and the probable nature of educational research in the 1980s. Authors include N.L. Gage, Benjamin S. Bloom, David R. Krathwohl, Robert M. Gagne, Robert Glaser, Robert Ebel, and Robert L. Thorndike. (GC)

Summarizes three approaches to work motivation and six current or emerging motivational theories, involving need hierarchies, work satisfaction and dissatisfaction, expectancy, behaviorism, goals, and job characteristics. Discusses research based on each theory, critiques of the models, and implications for research on educational administrator…

Discusses research in counseling and psychotherapy, analyzes and critiques the most popularly used meta-models, i.e. those that guide and delimit applied theory, and research. Develops and advocates the use of a systems paradigm for future research. (RC)

Reviews and identifies several aspects of adult reading habits in the United States. (FL)

Argues that, although Piaget's seminal work on children's use of intention and consequence information to make moral evaluations has spawned a substantial amount of research, progress in this area has been hampered by serious conceptual and methodological problems. Offers some methodological guidelines for conducting research in this area.…

The author notes the lack of theory-relevant research in social education. Four types of sociological theory as determined by Zetterberg (1965) are paralleled to social education: theory as classics, as criticism, taxonomic theory, and scientific theory. (KC)

Discusses the need for educational research organizations (such as the American Educational Research Association) to systematically and critically study their own research priorities, review procedures, membership requirements, and resource allocations. (GC)

Home economists must examine the turf, the rules, and the players in the highly complex problem of defining government and family roles as they affect each other. More research in this field must be supported. (Author)

Describes an organization called the European Co-operation in Social Science Information and Documentation (ECSSID) and discusses its initiatives to establish Europe-wide cooperation in the exchange and collection of social science data. Specific aims of ECSSID are enumerated, including promotion of exchange of primary documents and building up of…

Reviews findings from the behavioral sciences which are related to the referential, informational, demand, relational, and image-of-the-other characteristics of instructional presentations. The need for research which would extend knowledge about these items is also discussed. Five references are appended. (Author/LLS)

The author introduces 10 articles on language arts and learning disabilities (LD) and presents evidence for her contention that reading should be viewed within the context of a general model of language. For related information see EC 132 759-768. (CL)

The author finds the strength of the ethnomethodological approach to be its interest in understanding and describing day-to-day social interactions in the schools. He sees this as necessary to educational sociology, which has tried to explain "why" things happen in education without first describing "what" is happening. (Author/SJL)

Criticizes the National Science Foundation (NSF) for funding research for which the American public, the author holds, would not approve the expenditure of its taxes. Gives examples of NSF funded projects that either duplicate existing knowledge, provide relatively unimportant information, or potentially bias future policy. (GC)

Provides a point-by-point rebuttal of John M. Ashbrook's article (UD 508 063) which criticized the social science research funding practices of the National Science Foundation. (GC)