Robert Perloff

Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns

Ulric Neisser (Chair) Gwyneth Boodoo Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. A. Wade Boykin Nathan Brody Stephen J. Ceci Diane E Halpern John C. Loehlin Robert Perloff Robert J. Sternberg Susana Urbina Emory University Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Howard University Wesleyan University Cornell University California State University, San Bernardino University of Texas, Austin University of Pittsburgh Yale University University of North Florida

Financing Mental Health Services A Comparison of Two Federal Programs

This article focuses on federal policies that affect the financing of mental health care services. The need for a delicate balance between controlling the costs of care and assuring access to quality services for those in need is addressed. The programs discussed are Medicare, the federal insurance program for the elderly and disabled, and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS), the Department of Defense program for military dependents and retirees. Efforts to control the costs of care often result in the policy decision to limit significantly the scope of practice of nonphysician health care providers when compared to that authorized by state-level practice and licensing laws. Some federal initiatives that focus on these combined concerns will be discussed including the CHAMPUS initiatives to contract out for services and Medicares prospective payment system now used for hospital services.

Information resources for program evaluators

Abstract Mechanisms for access are given regarding key information resources on the subject of program evaluation. Included are listings of important books, journals and newsletters; brief descriptions of the major professional societies in the program evaluation field (including membership information); a listing of resources for evaluation training materials; and a brief discussion of targeted research on evaluation that is contributing to the development of resource materials. The resources indentified are mainly intended for use by individuals conducting evaluation research studies, and for those engaging in training and research on program evaluation. A concluding section highlights some potentially useful information retrieval devices and strategies, and examines briefly future developments in program evaluation that may be related to resource materials now available or being created.

Impediments in the Production and Consumption of Science and Technical Communication

Scientific and technical communication to the public suffers not from problems of magnitude but from impediments to its production and consumption, especially inaccuracy, distortion, and deception. The author describes how ambiguity, self-interest, and exaggeration, for example, influence production quality, and how such factors as existing audience bias, lack of trust in scientific evidence, and resistance to change further complicate assimilation of messages about science.

Commentary Toward an Unrestricted Dissemination of Research Results

In this article, an argument is advanced for essentially unrestricted dissemination of research results, including preliminary findings, on the basis that restrictions are not only prior restraints on free speech, but are also inimical to the interests of science, public policy, and the common good.In this article, an argument is advanced for essentially unrestricted dissemination of research results, including preliminary findings, on the basis that restrictions are not only prior restraints on free speech, but are also inimical to the interests of science, public policy, and the common good.

A Commentary on Evaluating Urban Education

After we accepted the invitation to serve as guest editors for this special issue of EDUCATION AND URBAN SOCIETY, we were faced with a number of tough questions revolving around the explicit nature of the issues content, questions which were all the more critical and frustrating because an allotment not to exceed 150 manuscript pages will necessarily cover but a fraction of what could be said about the economic, educational, political, psychological, and social components indigenous to urban education and its evaluation. Given the constraints, we believe that the six substantive articles constituting this issue will, while admittedly not covering comprehensively all that is known about the field, leave the reader, as it has left us, with the feeling that what is covered is indeed treated authoritatively and readably. In this commentary it is our objective to summarize succinctly what we believe to be the salient features of the papers comprising this issue. We hope readers will benefit from this gestalt overview-a kind of overarching glimpse of what the six articles say in greater depth.

Demographic Variables Accounting for Congressmen's Votes for Arts Legislation

4 factors were evaluated in an effort to explain a Congressmans voting behavior toward federal support of the arts: party affiliation, Congressional district, educational background, and age at time of voting. The findings showed that urban Democratic Representatives were more likely to vote for an arts bill than their rural Democratic colleagues, while neither urban nor rural Republican Congressmen were as positive in voting for an arts bill. No significant differences were observed in the voting behavior on the bill as a function of either educational background or age.

Problems of Method and Ethics in Interracisal Research

1 Ornstein, hl. The Role of Scientific Societies in the Secenteenth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928. *During the 19305, five members of the Dcutsche Academic der Wissenschaften zu Berlin-among them Albert Einstein-tenninated their memberships in the Academy. Over the years the membership lists of the Academy have reflected the state of FrancoGerman relations. 3 Hanhardt, A.M., The Deutsche Academie der Wisscnschajfen zu Berlin and the Organization of Research in East Germany, Dissertation, Northwestern University, 1963. 4 Hanhardt, A.hL “Die Ordentlichen hlitglieder der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1945-1961: Eine empirische Untersuchung,” in a forthcoming spccia1 issue of the Rolner Zeitschrijt fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. 5 For a review of this literature see W. A. Welsh, Changes in Political Elites: An Eoaluation of the Literature, hls., Northwestern University, 1963. The Hoover Institute Studies are now being revived at AIIT. 0 See “Draft Code: Intellectuals and Political Elites” dated June 26, 1963, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University. A similar approach, stressing dif€crcnt variables and concentrating on political elites, is being undertaken by Prof. Carl Beck, University of Pittsburgh. 7We had the good fortune of having the services of three intelligent and articulate research assistants: Jean Anderson, Terry Brotherton and Cathrine Gullo. W e wish to express our thanks to them for their splendid work. 8 See K. F. Janda, “The NU-0037 Cross Classification Computer Program,” mimeo, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University. We should like to express our thanks to Kenneth Janda, Rudolph Rummel (now Indiana University), and Richard Chadwick of the Northwestern University Dcpartmcnt of Political Science for their invaluable assistance in acquainting US with thc tcchnology and use of the eleckonic data processing equipment at the Northwestern Computing Ccnter. 0 Emphasis is being placed on persons who held cabinet positions in these countries between 1935 and 1960. For more detailed rePorts of findings see W. A. Welsh, Cabinet Elites in Uruguay and Mexico, hls., Nerthwestern University, 1962; and Cabinet Elites in Uruguay and Boticia, 1935-1960, hls., Northwestern University, 19G3. Problems of Method and Ethics