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The mission of the "Journal of Counseling and Development" (JCD) includes the attempt to serve as a "scholarly record of the counseling profession" and as part of the "conscience of the profession." This responsibility requires the willingness to engage in self-study. This study investigated two aspects of research practice in 25 quantitative studies reported in 1996 JCD issues, the use and interpretation of statistical significance tests, and the meaning of and ways of evaluating the score reliabilities of measures used in substantive research inquiry. Too many researchers have persisted in equating result improbability with result value, and too many have persisted in believing that statistical significance evaluates result replicability. In addition, too many researchers have persisted in believing that result improbability equals the magnitude of study effects. Authors must consistently begin to report and interpret effect sizes to aid the interpretations they make and those made by their readers. With respect to score reliability evaluation, more authors need to recognize that reliability inures to specific sets of scores and not to the test itself. Thirteen of the JCD articles involved reports of score reliability in previous studies and eight reported reliability coefficients for both previous scores and those in hand. These findings suggest some potential for improved practice in the quantitative research reported in JCD and improved editorial policies to support these changes. (Contains 39 references.) (SLD)

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