This paper describes an undergraduate level course developed with the dual agenda of teaching students basic empirical research skills and permitting them to explore concerns related to the workplace. Familiarizing students with workplace issues can assist them in making appropriate career choices and can help them to formulate plans for making a…

Archival research gives students opportunities to appreciate original documents and artifacts, teaching them how to access materials, to treat them with care, and to invest them with meaning, and demonstrating the partnership researchers develop with librarians. Three suggested writing assignments introduce students to special collections,…

Author suggests objectives and procedures for launching an election unit as an introduction to politics for fifth and sixth graders. (NL)

The electronic computer has placed new responsibilities upon the researcher at the same time that it has freed statistical methods in educational research, as applied to data analysis, from prohibitive calculation. (Author)

Described is an example of a locally developed program that served as an alternative to graduate education programs and provided school counselors with some new awareness and skills. (Author)

The nearly 100 citations here refer to material cited in the 11 preceding articles. Together they make up this special issue, entitled "Teaching Fieldwork to Educational Researchers: A Symposium." (GC)

Pure and applied mathematical research is discussed briefly. The author gives an example of mathematical research on functional differential equations that was motivated by a student error on a calculus examination. (MK)

Discusses need for measuring the impact of career counseling in a more precise and meaningful way. Includes some of the issues raised by a survey of career counseling outcome research. Implications of these issues are presented in the form of a set of recommendations for researchers. (Author)

Methods for encouraging thoughtful use of encyclopedias in elementary school report writing are suggested. (LH)

Describes an assignment in which students locate, read, assess, and discuss critical articles about the works of literature they are studying. Points to many benefits of the assignment, including its positive effects on students' library research skills. (TJ)

Argues that research and the author's own experience show that working in groups and emphasizing learning about a topic helps students, especially low achievers, access and use information more effectively. Describes several forms of collaborative research for low achievers; offers guidelines for collaborative research; and presents an overview of…

Discusses the importance of science process skills and describes ways to select sets of random numbers for selection of subjects for a research study in an unbiased manner. Presents an activity appropriate for grades 5-12. (JRH)

Attempts to identify skills shown when able students work on open investigations. Findings indicate that these students use knowledge, carry out preliminary work, decide on objectives, are flexible, use a range of techniques, attempt to quantify, seek information from different sources, use time efficiently, report work, show critical appraisal of…

Explains the need to teach students different strategies for taking notes for research, especially at the exploration and collecting information stages, based on Carol Kuhlthau's research process. Discusses format changes; using index cards; notes for live presentations or media presentations versus notes for printed sources; and forming focus…

Presents a casebook on the song "American Pie" that considers how to define the parameters of short narrative. Describes the creation of an end-of-term cumulative writing project that the authors have successfully employed for the last decade. Discusses how they put together a casebook that teaches the necessary research skills. (SG)