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Riesterer, Becky A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Scholars have determined popular literature often contains propaganda imperatives (Berelson, 1952; Budd, 1967; Davis, 1942). Given the persuasive impact children's literature has upon the reader, children's literature containing propagandistic intent is a powerful force (Desai, 2014). This is especially true during times of war. Several studies…
Descriptors: Propaganda, Childrens Literature, Cartoons, War
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Weltzer-Ward, Lisa – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: Researchers commonly utilize coding-based analysis of classroom asynchronous discussion contributions as part of studies of online learning and instruction. However, this analysis is inconsistent from study to study with over 50 coding schemes and procedures applied in the last eight years. The aim of this article is to provide a basis…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses, Critical Thinking
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Bantum, Erin O'Carroll; Owen, Jason E. – Psychological Assessment, 2009
Psychological interventions provide linguistic data that are particularly useful for testing mechanisms of action and improving intervention methodologies. For this study, emotional expression in an Internet-based intervention for women with breast cancer (n = 63) was analyzed via rater coding and 2 computerized coding methods (Linguistic Inquiry…
Descriptors: Intervention, Computational Linguistics, Cancer, Validity
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Benediktsson, Michael Owen – Social Forces, 2010
What role do the media play in the identification and construction of white-collar crimes? Few studies have examined media coverage of corporate deviance. This study investigates news coverage of six large-scale accounting scandals that broke in 2001 and 2002. Using a variety of empirical methods to analyze the 51 largest U.S. newspapers, the…
Descriptors: Crime, Advantaged, Social Status, Identification
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Sawaki, Yasuyo; Kim, Hae-Jin; Gentile, Claudia – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2009
In cognitive diagnosis a Q-matrix (Tatsuoka, 1983, 1990), which is an incidence matrix that defines the relationships between test items and constructs of interest, has great impact on the nature of performance feedback that can be provided to score users. The purpose of the present study was to identify meaningful skill coding categories that…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Test Items, Test Content, Identification
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Kim, Jihyun – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
The study investigated implications of variations in EAD [Encoded Archival Description]-encoded finding aids on the Web. A content analysis methodology was used to examine five different aspects of EAD finding aids: (1) data elements; (2) labeling terminology; (3) navigation; (4) browsing; (5) searching. Seventeen EAD finding aid web sites…
Descriptors: Archives, Standards, Coding, Metadata