In this article, I present a qualitative analysis of third graders' experiences with a unit from their district-mandated commercial reading curriculum in which the children made strong connections between a fictional account of a Depression-era farm family's economic hardships and their own 21st century lives in a city with one of the highest…

Advocates the retention of essay analysis as the most valid measure for determining an individual's preferred mode of response and argues against the use of the Response Preference Measure and statement analysis. (HOD)

An overview of 30 studies published since 1968 which employed the "elements" proposed by Purves and Rippere for analyzing student response to literature. (DD)

Grades in a college composition course were withheld over a 10-week term to determine how students would redirect their anxiety. (HOD)

Includes measures of literary discrimination, objective questions, verifiable performance measures, and content analysis." (Author/RD)

Describes outcomes of a six-year study of students' participatory research on literacy motivations and schooling. Suggests the need for a fundamental shift of the dominant epistemology in society and schools to one based on trusting, listening to, and respecting the integrity of the minds of all participants in schooling. (NH)

To assess the effects of textual variation on students' preferred patterns of literary response, 166 college students were asked to read two poems and two short stories. The findings provided support for the notion that students' preferred patterns of response are strongly influenced by the nature of the texts they read. (HOD)

Details the development of an instrument for reporting teacher and course effectiveness in college composition courses. (HOD)

In an investigation of the effects of praise, negative comment and no comment on expository compositions of eleventh grade students, author hypothesized that praise might increase motivation more than criticism or no comment. He suggests an experiment to test this phypothesis. (NL)

Compares the traditional method of composition grading, marginal comments, with a more recent technique, comments on cassette tape. (HOD)

Indicates that a teacher's responses to errors made by students in oral reading are related to that teacher's theoretical orientation as well as to the type of error made. (HOD)

Using techniques borrowed from ethnography, a participant observer spent four months in one elementary school to examine children's responses to literature as it was expressed in the classroom. (HOD)

Although students did not recognize Canadian poetry to any important extent, those students who made any differentiation between poems favored the Canadian poems. (DD)

Attempts to verify or identify a valid operational definition of literary response by determining its constituents through the use of a refined version of the Response Preference Measure. (HOD)

Demonstrates ways in which three students in a multi-age, literature-based grade 3/4 classroom constructed and reconstructed their subjectivities based on demands of the social setting. Notes that each student's participation was influenced by gender, social class, ethnicity, and the task. Suggests that interpretations of students' interactions…