Reviews mail sent in response to a year's worth of "Middle School" columns in this journal. Notes that the column on a middle scholar's inquiry excursion went completely unnoticed and that the column on portfolio assessment received the most attention. (SR)

Describes a study that examined the empirical research on performance improvement by conducting a content analysis of articles published in "Performance Improvement Quarterly" from 1997 through 2000. Provides a detailed analysis of the empirical research studies and includes an appendix listing the 49 articles studied. (Author/LRW)

Explains the Matthew Effect for Countries (MEC) which consists of the systematic deviation in the number of actual citations in scientific journals from the number of expected citations from particular countries. Highlights include a rank order of countries; journal rankings; and a list of Matthew core journals. (Author/LRW)

Examines papers published in the journal, "Teaching Sociology," from 1984-1999 to depict an emergence of a scholarship on teaching and learning. Builds on the work of Paul Baker who thought that evidence of scholarship was lacking in the journal from 1973-1983. Suggests that a scholarship is emerging. (CMK)

A study examined all research articles published in four journals from 1993-2001. Approximately two-thirds of the articles consistently described participants by the diagnostic categories from the 1983 American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) diagnostic manual. An average of 10% of the articles described participants in terms of the 1992…

The term and notion of the "half-life" index-number of literature obsolescence, and their borrowing from nuclear physics and adaptation into the literature of literature obsolescence, have up to now been attributed to the librarian Burton and the physicist Kebler and to their 1960 journal article. This article presents evidence to show it is…

Identifies research in the "Journal of Research and Development in Education," the "Journal of Experimental Education," and the "Journal of Educational Research" from 1990-1999 focused on literacy. Categorizes information about the articles to describe the work published and to determine trends in literacy research. Notes fewer sole-authored…

Examines 288 interpersonal-research articles published during the past 25 years in this journal. Develops a 17-part categorization system to account for each of the articles. Places the categories in relationship with one another to create a model of interpersonal communication consisting of seven components: culture, internal states,…

Notes that the history of the communication field has been marked by theoretical fragmentation, identity crises, and disciplinary isolation. Assesses this journal's contribution to synthesis scholarship and compares it to similar efforts in other national journals. Examines how new communication technologies are intensifying the need for scholars…

Provides selected article titles and descriptive material drawn from the pages of the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS)" and its precursor title, "American Documentation," dating from the beginning of the journal in January 1950 until the spring of 1999. Descriptions are arranged by subject and…

Examines journal articles published by academic librarians in Illinois. Findings show that women are publishing close to their numbers in the profession, more articles are being written collaboratively, they are published primarily in library and information science journals, and librarians at large universities are more likely to publish than…

When scholarly articles and clinical reports have scores of authors-what Cronin has termed "hyperauthorship"-the precise nature of each individual's contribution is often masked. A notation that describes collaborators' contributions and allows those contributions to be tracked in, and across, texts (and over time) offers a solution. A proposal…

Describes a program for students' first college chemistry course that used journal articles as a source for writing laboratory reports. Provides specific examples and discusses assessment of student work and student and faculty responses. (Contains 14 references.) (ASK)

Provides a compendium of the first 10 years (1969-1980) of articles published in the professional journal, "The Educational Facility Planner." Each article entry contains its title, journal location, author, and brief abstract. A title index is included. (GR)

Reports findings of an Indirect-Collective Referencing (ICR) investigation carried out in a representative sample of the elite physics journal literature, "The Physical Review," in the January 1997 issues of 44 source journals. Findings revealed ICR phenomenon present in all journals, that the quantity of non-indexed ICRs in this literature…