This paper summarises some English research findings related to educational inequality, particularly in inner urban schools. It documents how differences related to relative poverty are reflected in patterns of educational attainment as revealed by national tests results. It considers and evaluates how the issue of educational inequality in…

Blogs, wikis, and social-networking sites such as Facebook may get media buzz these days, but for scientists, engineers, and doctors, they are not even on the radar. The most effective tools of the Internet for such people tend to be efforts more narrowly aimed at their needs, such as software that helps geneticists replicate one another's…

A complete description of the development of a guide to help authors improve the quality of descriptive evaluation reports of federally funded programs is provided. Improvements in reports would be particularly useful to planners who must decide if and how programs should be modified. The methods and procedures employed in the development of the…

The traditional experimental-control group method for evaluating delinquency prevention programs is questioned. It is contended that the method harms the intervention and exacerbates the deliquency problem. (JKS)

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: A new study by a pair of Harvard University researchers discounts earlier findings that coaching can substantially improve student performance on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). "There is simply insufficient evidence that large score increases are a result of a coaching program," write…

This article discusses problems imposed on students writing dissertations and makes distinctions between published research and dissertation research. (PD)

A multi-disciplinary base for the study of information science is suggested, and the difficulty of accommodating pure and social science elements of information science within a single, unified framework is discussed. (Author)

The article provides summaries of the conference topics: the general background, the administration, the economic responsibility in free cultural activity, the training of employees, the facilities of free cultural activities, and the resolutions of the conference on adult education. (Author/BP)

This collection of research report abstracts covers projects sponsored by the Bureau of Research, Office of Education, primarily under the Cooperative Research Program (PL 83-531, as amended by PL 89-10). Also included are projects authorized by other legislation, i.e., Adult and Vocational Education, PL 88-210; Captioned Films for the Deaf, PL…

The author, institution, subject, and report number indexes which comprise this publication provide access to the accompanying collection of abstracts of reports on research sponsored by the Bureau of Research, Office of Education (OE), between 1956 and 1965. These two publications were prepared by the Educational Research Information Center…

The Computer Laboratory, founded in 1956, provides instructional and research computing services to the students, faculty, and staff at Michigan State University; this report reviews the activities and summarizes usage of its services during the 1976-1977 fiscal year. The organizational structure is charted, facilities and services are detailed,…