Discusses the major characteristics of the scientific and the humanistic approaches to research. Proposes that for the applied, human service professions such as education, action research is a more appropriate method. (SK)

Reports that research in the field of teacher effectiveness is difficult because so many areas associated with it have not been analyzed. (FL)

Aimed to provide an extensive and integrative review of empirical studies of pretend play in children. Attempts were made to sort out what is known from what is supposed but unconfirmed, and to identify the theoretical implications of the former and the relevance of the latter. (Author/RH)

Discusses the discrepancies in results from library utilization studies which preclude comparison of data, and recommends the standardization of definitions and methodology to enable valuable comparisons across libraries. (JVP)

The authors stress the importance of taking a systematic, well researched, and appropriately documented approach to the development, implementation, and continued growth of a curriculum for the hearing impaired learner. C. Morocco's model provides a framework within which decisions concerning the type and style of research effort can be…

This article explores the controversy over research and communication frameworks devised by the Research Committee on Innovative Processes in Social Change of the International Sociological Association. Concludes that current and future controversies can contribute to a fruitful discussion among social scientists of innovative processes in social…

Surveys the state of writing research, research needed in the 1980s, and how teachers need to be involved in that research. (HTH)

Among procedural considerations in planning a peer tutoring program are tutor and tutee selection (examining age, sex, socioeconimic, cultural, and racial factors); tutor training; and program monitoring. Ethical considerations include stigmatization of the tutee. Future research issues should focus on long term effects and optimal tutor-tutee…

Argues that recent attempts by followers of the critical theory school (Frankfurt) to resolve dilemmas experienced by the first critical theorists to give their notions of "substantive reason" any real meaning have failed. Also suggests reasons for the interest of North American sociologists in critical theory, despite these shortcomings. (DB)

Conceptual and methodological guidelines for voice therapy research are presented, and suggestions are offered for selecting experimental designs. Divergent terminology, philosophy, and issues of voice therapy are examined to serve as an overview and as a basis for research direction. (Author/DLS)

A review of research on English teaching conducted by Australian teachers reveals the need for more action research on the teaching of Australian literature. (RL)

In tracing the evolution of research methodology in the social sciences, the author notes that the quality of quantitative models outstrips the quality of data used with the models. He believes, however, that refinements in theory building will make prediction, forecasting, and social engineering possible. (Author/KC)

Discusses the basis on which the behavioral orientation to political science has been constructed: that there are discoverable uniformities in political behavior that can be expressed in generalizations; that the validity of such generalizations must be testable; and that theory and research are closely intertwined. Discusses both American and…

Identifies dimensions relevant to grouping intellectual disciplines and identifies problems with establishing interdisciplinary criteria. Major difficulties include arriving at an appropriate level of description which neither describes a topic too generally nor too specifically and determining whether the comparable features of two disciplines…

Points out that sociologists should be aware of developments in the field of social psychology because sociological (particularly structural) analyses rest on assumptions about the social psychological properties of persons and processes. (DB)