The necessity of library and information research is pointed up by referring to some of important categories of research now in progress. Reasons are advanced for the necessity such research in Australia and ways suggested in which students wishing to make a career research and practitioners anxious for research opportunities may be accommodated.…

Organized research units--also known as centers, institutes, and laboratories--are increasingly prominent in the university. This paper examines how ORUs emerge to promote global agendas and international collaborations in an academic health center in North America. The roles these units play in helping researchers work across institutional and…

Based on the analysis of 16 interviews with women first-year master's students at two national engineering schools in Japan, this article examines the socialisation role of compulsory undergraduate research experience in Japanese women's decisions to pursue graduate education and choices of the programme. The findings suggest that research…

This article explores the applicability of interdisciplinary research on the implementation of technological innovations to the field of e-learning research. Arguing that there are important ways in which e-learning systems can be treated as "technological innovations," this article presents a review of several key theoretical and research design…

Improving school systems is critical to bridging the achievement gap and achieving federal accountability goals. Research in three urban districts partnered with a university-based intermediary organization sheds light on promising instructional reform strategies and challenges to bringing about systemwide change. Analyses of district efforts to…

The Curriculum, Evaluation and Management (CEM) Centre has grown in just 25 years to become the largest educational research unit in a UK university. It has influenced schools and teachers in unprecedented numbers and has had a considerable impact on policy and practice both directly and indirectly in the UK and beyond. This article summarises…

Investigates a way of connecting the classroom instructional environment with individual students' generalization. Advances focusing phenomena, regularities in the ways in which teachers, students, artifacts, and curricular materials act to direct attention toward certain mathematical properties over others. Conducts an empirical study on slope…

This article provides a brief introduction to IGE and indicates how teacher educators may contribute to the reform and renewal of education with IGE as a focus. (MM)

The elementary school teacher's task of decision-making in Individually Guided Education programs is doubly important because of its benefits to the individual child and its potential source of professionalism for the teacher. (MM)

A set of personal and academic qualities has been identified for unit leaders in IGE programs so that they might better assume the role of educational decision-makers. (MM)

Fulfilling the role as principal of an IGE School requires the understanding and skills necessary to initiate, manage, and sustain the educational change process. (MM)

Teachers in IGE should emphasize and explain the goals, instructional objectives, and philosophy of the unit team. (MM)

The availability of adequate curriculum materials that help professional staffs plan and implement instructional programs suitable for each student makes the difference in whether or not IGE works. (MM)

In IGE programs, evaluation takes place at all levels, but ultimately is directed at enhancing instructional effectiveness. (MM)

Local schools, teacher education institutions, and other state agencies have recognized the advantages of the network concept and have moved toward relying on the state IGE network structures. (MM)