Focuses upon some poetry of peace written in wartime and discusses the relevancy of a unit of such poetry to the concerns of modern youth. (SW)

Reviews various problems which create problems in research design for the classroom and advocates a divorce between research and evaluation. Bibliography. (MB)

Analyzes 16 studies of child-abuse treatment in terms of methods and findings, and suggests how future studies may be made more useful to practitioners. (Author/RH)

Measures for operationalizing organizational slack were organized into two types of operations: relative and absolute. Each was applied to a common group of firms. Relative measures agreed significantly on the classification of firms into high and low slack groups. Absolute measures did not converge. (WAS)

Discussion of the need for research on the costs of library materials notes cost studies and price indexes now available, methodology used in preparing cost studies, and opportunities for research on trends of material costs. Twenty-two references are included. (EJS)

The cognition/conduct problem is outlined as it arises in cognitive-developmental moral theory. A model of the connection between stage of moral reasoning and behavior is developed, involving two separate steps (from reasoning to judgments and from judgments to behavior).(Author/RH)

In reaction to presentations at the Airlie House Conference on the Implications of Research on Teaching for Practice, two papers (by O. Smith and N. L. Gage, respectively) discuss how far research on teaching has come as a field, while a third (by G. D. Fenstermacher) explains how implications of research on teaching can be used. (MP)

Although the association between vigorous exercise and certain aspects of mental health is well documented, explanations for this relationship are not well understood. Research in this area is reviewed, and recommendations for more study are presented. (CJ)

The author feels that the stakeholder approach unavoidably pushes the evaluation toward technical compromises and accommodations that diminish the long-term gains in knowledge. (PN)

Economics education research focuses on college classrooms, overlooks the need for replication and generalization of results, and is limited in scope and methodology. Future research should address precollege and graduate level issues, new college level issues, replication and generalization, cost-benefit analysis, and alternative measures of the…