The third in a 3-volume report on the Adult Indian Education Project (AIEP, a 15-month U.S. Office of Education project designed to identify the literacy levels and educational needs of Oklahoma's adult American Indians), this volume presents supporting data in the form of appendices to Volume I. These appendices include: (1) The Survey Instrument…

This report describes research designed to examine questions about the amounts and kinds of positive examples appearing in children's television programming, the influence they have on children's prosocial behavior, and the circumstances that optimize attention to and comprehension of such content. A methodology for analyzing positive social…

Studies pertaining to community growth have dealt with the community's territorial expansion, economy, government's functions, and institutions. Since researchers usually use the dimension that they have been taught (economists use economic measures, and social scientists use sociological measures), two problems have resulted: (1) How should…

This manual describes the model--specifically the observation procedures and coding systems--used in a longitudinal study of how children learn to comprehend what they read, with particular emphasis on science texts. Included are procedures for the following: identifying students; observing--recording observations and diagraming the room; writing…