Reviews 15 years of clinical research in three family therapy (FT) journals that provide evidence for the effectiveness of marriage and family therapy. Considers designs that are being utilized in reports on the effectiveness of various models of FT. Makes connections between research and the everyday work of clinicians to make the work more…

Presents five rules of scientific review and publishing: judge scientific articles only by their logic and strength of their evidence; accept results of a competent peer review; resist efforts to judge articles on the basis of political concerns; abide by the same rules of logic and evidence applied to all scientific work despite disagreement with…

Analyzes articles published in "I Wonder", a publication designed to promote scientific discourse among elementary students, offers an overview of the journal as a tool for promoting authentic inquiry and examine scientific and engineering projects published by students. (Author/MM)

Presents annotations of 99 articles (most published between 1980 and 2001) about young adult literature. Describes the criteria used to select the articles. (SG)

Presents the results of a content analysis of articles that were published in the "Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development" (JMCD) during the last 15 years. The analysis identified the leading contributors (i.e., authors, institutions) to JMCD, evaluated the content of the articles, examined the type of articles, and…

To gauge the status of connections between the research literature about adolescent development and current theoretical and applied work pertinent to the concept of positive youth development (PYD), we assessed whether the adolescent development literature from 1991 to 2003 reflected a network of terms associated with PYD. A list of 16 terms…

Academic journals shape a field by including certain topics and excluding others.The purpose of this study was to explore in 5 higher-education journals published during 1990-2003 the visibility and the use of community colleges as research sites. Findings indicated an extremely limited visibility of community colleges, with use of community…

Sport and exercise psychology research appearing in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES) over the past 75 years can be characterized by re-emerging themes--hot topics in the 1930s remain hot topics now. Re-emerging themes include sportsmanship/moral development, social development/significant others, self-perceptions,…

The accounts of our subdiscipline's contributions to The Research Quarterly are similar. Sociology, history, and philosophy operate at some distance from the biological sciences. The research methods used by scholars in each of the domains address distinctive issues related to objectivity and, thus, validity. The contributions to The Research…

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of The Research Quarterly/Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQ/RQES) an analysis was conducted comparing RQ/RQES to numerous other journals in the field with regard to impact factors and citation rates. A series of analyses was conducted from the first publication of RQ/RQES in 1930 through this 75th…

This article considers the use of popular science articles in teaching scientific literacy. Comparing the discourse features of popular science with research article and textbook science--the last two being target forms for students--it argues that popular science articles cannot serve as models for scientific writing. It does, however, suggest…

Academic lectures show formal and informal characteristics. Alongside passages of rigorous scientific reasoning, conference English may therefore be expected to contain many features identified by earlier studies as characteristic of the conversational mode, reflecting the ongoing interaction between speaker and listener. To find out whether these…

The rapid expansion of public schooling during the 1950s and 1960s increased the need for teachers and teacher training. Colleges accomplished this by having professors of education train other educators in foundations of education. This broke the connections between academic history, philosophy, and sociology and educational history, philosophy,…

This article presents evidence that, from selected spectroscopic articles in the earliest volumes of the Physical Review to other selected spectroscopic articles from the same journal in 1980, a shift in sentence style takes place. This shift is from what M.A.K. Halliday calls the dynamic style (which reflects happenings, processes, and actions)…

A review of the content of "The Career Development Quarterly" ("CDQ") was conducted for the period between 1994 and 2003. In total, 297 articles were published in "CDQ" during this period. The content analysis was based on content, authorship, and institutional affiliation. The principal areas of research were career development: life-span…