Suggests that technical writing teachers can use the "classics" of scientific literature to discuss science as rhetoric, effectively challenging major assumptions concerning the objectivity of science. Explores several sources on the relationship of the philosophy, history, and sociology of science to technical writing and rhetoric and how to…

Comments on how reading research studies sometimes work their effects in wonderous ways. Illustrates this in humorous reviews of several recent research reports. (HOD)

It is taken for granted that doing research means collecting and processing data in ways that allow researchers to report in print. The use of visual rather than literary media for conducting and reporting research is discussed. (RM)

Given are guidelines, supported by both research and practice, that may aid in providing remediation for low-achieving students. (MNS)

Provides a sample of the type of practical teaching behaviors that have emerged from the current research on teaching. (JOW)

Recognizes and praises the research of Margaret Donaldson for what it reveals about children's thinking and highlights three central contributions of her work to the understanding of children's language learning. (HOD)

This technical report documents the procedures used to collect and summarize data from the 2000 High School Transcript Study (HSTS 2000). Chapters in the report detail the sampling of schools and students (chapters 2 and 3), data collection procedures (chapter 4), data processing procedures (chapter 5), and weighting procedures (chapter 6).…

A committee of the National Research Council studied the desirability, feasibility, and potential impact of two reporting practices for National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results: district-level reporting and market-basket reporting. NAEP's sponsors believe that reporting district-level NAEP results would support state and local…

Degree partnership is a term used to describe a variety of models that provide a guarantee to students who maintain adequate grades in a college program of continuation of degree studies at another institution. This "guarantee" that space will be available for degree completion at another institution separates degree partnerships from…

This bibliography represents independent inquiry and scholarly research produced by South Carolina State University students from 1950 through 2000. It includes: (1) dissertations; (2) theses; (3) problems in lieu of theses; and (4) projects. The 231 dissertations are listed alphabetically by authors only. The other 165 projects and theses and 26…

The 1997 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Customer Satisfaction survey was conducted to find out whether the NCES as an agency was responding to the needs of customers and to identify areas for improvement. Federal, state, and local education officials and academic researchers were asked about their satisfaction with NCES products…

This first Report of the Surgeon General on Mental Health represents the initial step in advancing the notion that mental health is fundamental to general health. It states that a review of research on mental health revealed two findings. First, the efficacy of treatment is well documented, and second, a range of treatment exists for most mental…

The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, fifth in the kit, discusses the role and importance of implementation evaluation and presents methods for designing, using, and reporting the results using assessment instruments to describe accurately how a program…

The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the ninth in the kit, is designed to help an evaluator convey to various audiences the information that has been collected during the course of the evaluation. The first chapter sets the context for communicating…

This book provides a simple but effective model for approaching action research. It also contains a series of tools to assist the researcher in working through the research process. The chapters are: (1) "Research in Professional and Public Life"; (2) "Principles of Community-Based Action Research"; (3) "Setting the Stage"; (4) "Look: Building the…