Article stresses the effect of physical environment on a conference's success or failure. Further research into what constitutes the best setting and how to achieve it is urged. More study is also needed of how individuals at conferences interact with each other and with the physical setting. (PD)

With an example of OScAR 5V records from four seventh-grade classrooms, this article illustrates the fact that conclusions in any study depend on decision-making processes. Careful examination of the decision-making process is suggested since resulting judgments and implications are rarely scrutinized. (CK)

The basic dynamic core of social change, the adoption and diffusion processes, evolves around an innovation. The tendency to adopt an innovation related to communicability of the innovation, its compatibility with other practices, its publicness, and the reversibility of its effects. (Author)

To explain social change, one must know not only about the aspiration level of individuals or about the resources available in the environment, but the coordination over time, of these two elements in relation to each other. (Author)

Where the traditional view urges the study of what content through what channels will produce what effects on what audiences, we should be studying how societies process information. (Author/MB)