The National School-to-Work Office in collaboration with the National Association for Gifted Children, the Council for Exceptional Children, the Association for the Gifted, and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted have identified 11 gifted education/school-to-work (GT/STW) models that are either best practices or unique…

For students, the study of the Holocaust encourages discussion about prejudice and justice, shame and dignity, hopelessness and faith, and engages them in debate about the moral and ethical behavior of humankind. Introducing students to the personal narrative, fiction, and poetry allows them to hear a narrative voice recount the facts of this…

Research supported by the U.S. Vocational Rehabilitation Administration Grant RD-957, and the West Virginia Vocational Rehabilitation Division, Charleston, West Virginia.

Describes a course in ethnographic research methods offered to selected educational researchers pursuing doctorates at the State University of New York, Albany. The course requires each student to conduct a disciplined research project and to keep a personal journal in the process. (GC)

Citing examples of research projects conducted within school systems using students as subjects, it is suggested that such research raises important issues of educational policy. Recommends that school boards establish systemwide standards for judging research proposals and makes suggestions on the content of such policies. Guidelines are…

Seven research projects in progress at the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC), Mississippi State University, focus on services and outcome-related issues pertaining to the education and employment of blind and severely visually impaired individuals. (SEW)

A brief history of Chinese developmental psychology is given, and current main research projects are highlighted. (Author/MP)

This review of government publishing presents a summary of research studies; an overview of the government as publisher 1930-1980; a departmental, functional, and subject analysis; a proposed research program; the history of United States government publishing; and a description of sales and depository distribution. Fifty-four references are…

The Interactive Research and Development Project is based on a strategy to bring classroom teachers, university researchers, and staff development personnel together to research questions of common concern and to plan a means to disseminate their findings. The development and implementation of a peer tutoring project designed to decrease…

Discusses techniques for changing applied learning strategies research from the status of temporary research project to that of a permanent part of the classroom or learning center. Eight references are listed. (LLS)

A pilot study is described showing that when the costs associated with a centralized research administration library are analyzed, all functions do not have equal expenses, and unit costs for information dissemination are relatively inexpensive. (MLW)

Describes a student field project which measured and interpreted ground-level aspects of the urban heat island in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. Discusses procedural steps and decisions, field procedures, data compiling, findings, evaluation, and dissemination of results. (Author/CK)

This first of three articles in a symposium on the research effort of the International Association of the Evaluation of Educational Achievement is an historical portrait of the IEA studies providing insights concerning the methodological and political aspects of a large-scale, multinational research project. (Editor/SJL)