"The Tragic Fallacy" is a polemical investigation exploring the dilemma of a culture unable to conceive of life as having tragic significance; unable to reconcile material and scientific progress to spiritual needs. Furthermore, the essay urges a reevaluation of cultural forms and demonstrates the exigency for drama, and literary arts in…

Author cautioned that there are limits to clinical supervision and provided the reader with a list of and rationale for these limits. (Editor/RK)

Article attempted to evaluate whether the Trusteeship Council missions, or the Trusteeship Council itself, have had any significant influence on educational planning and growth in Trust Territories. (Author/RK)

Pierre Bourdieu's work is part of a new concern to question traditional conceptions of sociology and its practice. Article evaluates his contributions and presents some critical viewpoints. (Author/RK)

Paper inquires into whether comparative education involves any value judgements and if it does what their role and character in comparative study may be. (Author)

Examines John Dewey's esthetic appreciation, his confusion in keeping distinct the subjective and objective elements of art, and the factors that influenced his judgement. (RK)

Discusses the value of knowledge and the effects of failing to value knowledge. (Author/RK)

Author examines learning experiences conducive to the development of critical thinking processes. (Editor)

The amount and type of decision-making activities available to and used by adolescents are examined. Adolescents' effectiveness in making decisions, methods they employ while doing so, and various decision-making models that may help adolescents perfect decision-making skills are discussed. (CJ)

College subjects (n=106) judged a set of 12 covariation problems structured so that each of four judgment rules would produce a distinctive judgment pattern on a problem set. The findings suggest that self-report is a weak basis for conclusions about sources of error in covariation judgment. (Author/PN)

Surveyed judges and trial commissioners (N=80) regarding child custody decisions in divorce. The content analysis described the responents' comments which clarified their reasons for attaching greater or lesser importance to a particular consideration or the method using in assessing a particular consideration during a court proceeding. (JAC)

Evaluators usually have preconceptions about how decisions are made in social programs and how evaluation results will be used. This article demonstrates how an evaluator's choice of a decision-making model has significant impact on the conduct and fate of the research. (Author/CM)

Discusses a study undertaken to determine the ecological effects of off-road vehicles, such as four-wheel drive trucks and dirt bikes in the Big Cottonwood Canyon area near Salt Lake City. Applications of the study to other investigations of off-road vehicles are discussed. (DB)

A standard reaction time procedure and a response signal procedure were used on data from eight experiments on semantic verifications. Results suggest that simple models of the semantic verification task that assume a single yes/no dimension on which discrimination is made are not correct. (Author/PN)

It is widely believed that evaluations can deliver certain, definitive, and absolutely convincing assessments of social programs. It would be wise to insist only that evaluation findings be credible rather than certain, arguable rather than definite, and persuasive rather than absolutely convincing. (CJ)