This article describes a model for action research which encourages collaboration between researchers and teachers, especially in curricular research and development. This model encourages teachers to act as researchers. A rationale is discussed and steps to follow are given. (JL)

Discusses how chronometric measures such as the DART (Display And Response Timing) computer program, have become virtually indispensable in testing cognitive theories of human social behavior. Describes how the DART (1) provides a way to collect response latency data; and (2) allows measurement of response latencies to a set of user-specified,…

A critique of a research study regarding policy formation at the state level is presented, focusing on the "assumptive world" of the researchers. While the researchers have created a new vista for study in this area, there is a great need for improved mthodology. (CB)

Describes development of a senior undergraduate level medical research class. The purpose of the class is to help health professionals critically analyze medical research and thus decide whether or not to use the results to change their professional practices. (CH)

Results of evaluation research studies, even those that are meticulously designed and carefully executed, often are not implemented. This article examines some of the critical factors that mediate between the carrying out of evaluation research and the utilization of findings. To illustrate these factors, two case studies are analyzed. (Author/EGS)

Discusses previous pictorial research and its limited potential, and describes function-based research approach, which attempts to make findings relevant by identifying potential picture functions in terms of contributions to instructional processes and procedures broadly applicable to various objectives and strategies. Relevance of this approach…

Discusses solar thermal collectors, solar thermal electric power conversion, photovoltaic power conversion, and wind energy conversion, and discusses implications for industrial arts. (TA)

Research reports must be taken off the shelf and put into citizen and professional hands to make schooling more effective, meaningful, predictable, measurable, and indispensable. (MM)

Selected results from the research completed under the Effective Teacher Education Program is presented, and ways are explored in which this research can be applied to teaching. (MM)

This paper presents a researcher's view of the foundations on which to research rural schooling. Three sections each discuss a different parameter of rural education research into science and mathematics education. These sections advise a conservative approach to research methodology, a liberal approach to content, and a radical approach to…

Authors state that research and the systems approach are effective in mutually exclusive ways, differentially applicable in educational problem-solving, and thus complementary, suggesting that each can be studied using the methodology of the other. (Author)

Educational research is seen as distinctive when knowledge claims are set in the context of education so that the relations between educative event, assertion, and evidence is clear. (Author)

There are two reasons that ethnographic research in education produces good results but has a bad reputation. First is the way that scientific research has been used to justify the faults of educational institutions. Second is the inability of ethnographic research to be useful to educational practitioners. (Author/GC)

The social sciences tend to address easily quantifiable aspects of human life and produce statistical findings of value only to scholars and scientists. The Hite studies, which address ordinary human concerns and present their findings in a form easily understood by the general public, represent a model for the future. (Author/RM)

Charges that social scientists have generally failed to integrate the results of their research into a coherent body of knowledge becasue traditional methods of research integration are inadequate for the task. Suggests that meta-analysis provides a greatly improved approach for integrating accumulations of research findings. (Author/JAC)