Medicine is a profession with a long history of research and high standards of methodological rigour and evidence-based decision making. These standards are being transferred into medical education. Universities are starting to collect high-quality data on their admissions systems. This has not been a short-term proposition. Medical courses are…

The purposes of this study were to (a) identify how leadership in a successful rural school districts has helped raise student achievement levels beyond those of comparable school districts as measured by state and federal mandated test scores, (b) investigate the district leadership that aligns with identified effective practices, and (c)…

This book presents 5 working papers which were produced in the course of a study undertaken in 1991 to obtain information on how the 92 universities, polytechnics and colleges in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland which offer initial teacher training courses prepare students to teach reading in primary and secondary schools. The five papers are:…

Suggests that in publishing educational research results, the minority researcher should seek outlets which have maximum impact on policy implementations and decision making in addition to seeking those outlets which have maximum impact in his community. (Author/AM)

The purposes of this study were to demonstrate a methodology for local development of slide-tape occupational information materials, and to determine whether this was a more effective means of conveying this information than printed or aural presentations. The results indicate the slide-tape mode was the most effective. (Author)

Advantages of the use of multivariate commonality analysis are discussed and a small data set is used to illustrate the analysis and as a model to enable readers to conduct such an analysis. A noteworthy advantage of commonality analysis is that commonality honors the relationships among variables by determining the degree to which predictors in a…

This study of survey research experts was conducted to determine desirable characteristics of mail questionnaires. The 82-item Likert-scale instrument used in the study covered general appearance, instructions, choice of items, choice of response options, wording, order of items, and item format. The instrument was administered to: 8 subjects who…

The dichotomy between the "critical" schools of thought and research practice and the more dominant "empirical" school in the field of communication creates a ferment similar to that described by G. Gerbner in 1983 concerning academic problems in mass communication because of different research perspectives. When addressing the…

This report considers the research conducted in Finland on photocopying and how it relates to teaching methods, and attempts to develop a theoretical basis for evaluating such research. In the first part of the report, it is argued that studies of copying need to target four separate areas of concern--knowledge, attitudes, activity (quantitative…

A REPORT OF THE WESTERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL MEDIA RESEARCH HELD AT SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 20-22, 1960, WAS PRESENTED. THE CONFERENCE WAS HELD TO REVIEW AND HELP CHART FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN RESEARCH, EXPERIMENTATION, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION RELATIVE TO NEW INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA. THE CONFERENCE HAD FOUR PURPOSES--TO…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE TWO TEACHING METHODS FOR DEVELOPING PRODUCTION TYPEWRITING ABILITY. THE TRADITIONAL, SPEED-EMPHASIS METHOD AND THE EXPERIMENTAL, PRODUCTION-EMPHASIS METHOD, WERE USED DURING 50-MINUTE PERIODS FOR 61 SESSIONS EACH SEMESTER WITH STUDENTS ENROLLED IN INTERMEDIATE TYPEWRITING AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY DURING…

THE ATTEMPT IS MADE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT ONE INSTRUCTOR CAN TEACH TWICE AS MANY STUDENTS AT THE SAME TIME, WITHOUT IMPAIRING THE QUALITY OF STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENT, BY MAKING EXTENSIVE USE OF THE MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDING LABORATORY IN CLOSE COORDINATION WITH CLASSROOM ACTIVITY. THE OBERLIN COLLEGE STUDY CONTINUED FOR 4 YEARS. THROUGH USE OF A VARIETY…

A MODIFIED CRITICAL INCIDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FORM FOR HOURLY MACHINING PERSONNEL WAS DEVELOPED, AND CERTAIN RATER AND RATING INSTRUMENT CHARACTERISTICS WERE INVESTIGATED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THEIR EFFECTS ON THE VARIANCE OF PERFORMANCE. INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH FRONTLINE FOREMEN TO COLLECT PERFORMANCE SPECIMENS WHICH WERE EVALUATED…