Rather than the traditional way of research influencing classroom instruction, with Performance Based Teacher Education in effect, instruction can present research with categories of behavior that are concrete examples of what teachers do in actual classrooms. (JA)

Adapted from an article "Machine-Aided Translation in Germany", in European Scientific Notes, ESN-27-6, June 30, 1973. (DD)

Tables are presented giving the critical values of the biserial and the point biserial correlation coefficients (when the null hypothesis assumes a value of zero for the coefficient) at the 0.05 and the 0.01 levels of significance. (Author)

A table is presented that directly converts any known point biserial coefficient to the biserial coefficient, providing the largest proportion of the dichotomous variable is also known. (Author)

Argues that research on child psychopathology would benefit from reduced influence of adult treatment models and from applying developmental perspective to clinical research on children. Research needs, including need to devise and use well-standardized measures and to evaluate interactions between subject and treatment variables, are suggested.…

Study examines "Professional School Counseling" to determine the type of material this flagship journal has included. Additionally, the inquiry was expanded to survey school counselors regarding their research interests and the most widely accessed sources of research information for this group. (Contains 10 references and 5 tables.) (GCP)

Provides some sources of corporate financial information on the Internet and illustrates how to use these resources in teaching international business and, more specifically, financial reporting and analysis of multinational enterprises. Points out some of the advantages and limitations of these resources. (EV)

Reviews the history of the Public Relations Body of Knowledge Abstracts, a database of public relations research and literature. Describes the uses of the abstracts for research purposes, and reports assessments of new research directions as set forth by members of the Public Relations Society of America's permanent Body of Knowledge Board. (MM)

Describes the CHILDES/BIB electronic bibliographic database, its contents, and its relationship to the CHILDES database. CHILDES is a depository of child language corpora and is the publisher of CHAT (a transcription manual) and CLAN (an electronic package for child language research). (GLR)

Recognizing that there are several tools available for conducting vocational education research, the author emphasizes two perspectives: (1) quantitative research, broadly defined as having an emphasis on numbers, and (2) qualitative research, defined as not having an emphasis on numbers. A balance among methodologies is recommended. (Author/JOW)

Discusses the authorship of literary works attributed to William Shakespeare. Describes the "modal analysis" authorship identification test's application to the dispute. Concludes that the poems, "Shall I Die" and "Elegy," may not have been written by Shakespeare, whereas eight poems from the collection, "The…

Uses a case study from information-seeking studies to analyze theory growth in information science, differentiating three contexts: unit theories, theoretical research programs, and metatheories. Illustrates the usefulness of tools in the analysis of theory growth by reconstructing a theory used in current information-seeking study. Includes a…

Methodological and practical challenges present formidable barriers to conducting empirical evaluations of school reform initiatives. Systematic information about school reform and improvement, and its relationship to special education, is even more difficult to obtain. In this study, the authors developed a reliable and valid method to (a)…