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This content analysis study evaluated the research methods and statistical techniques employed in studies reported in the professional journal, "TECSE" (Topics in Early Childhood Special Education) between 1990 and 1993. Research articles comprised 37 percent of all articles (n=120) published during this period. The most frequently utilized statistical techniques were descriptive statistics, t-tests, multiple regression, analysis of variance, and correlation. Nonintervention designs represented the majority of research articles, with causal-comparative being the most prominent type. Of the intervention designs, pretest/posttest was the most frequently utilized method. The majority of article authors were female. (DB)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert