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Peer reviewedCole, Flora – English Journal, 1971
Describes the author's success in using a soft sell" approach to stimulate reluctant high school students' interest in reading. (JB)
Descriptors: Paperback Books, Reading Instruction, Student Reaction, Teaching Styles
Peer reviewedPurves, Alan C. – College English, 1980
Explores the relationship and transaction between a reader and literature. Discusses the implications of this relationship on literature text choice and curriculum, as well as the feasibility of heuristics in a curriculum. (HTH)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Literature, Reading Processes
Peer reviewedQuereshi, M. Y. – Teaching of Psychology, 1981
Sixty-one psychology textbooks were analyzed according to four criteria: student acceptance and interest, readability and human interest, comprehensiveness and size, and psychobiological content. This analytic approach can be used in all subjects to match text selection with course objectives in order to increase student satisfaction. (AM)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Psychology, Readability
LaPaglia, Nancy – 1988
A major problem in any remedial course is finding a valid textbook that underprepared students can read. At Daley College, in Illinois, "Classics of Children's Literature" (Griffeth and Frey, editors) is used as the text in Humanities 100, one of several remedial courses offered for college credit to help students meet full-time eligibility…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Community Colleges, Course Content
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) Victorian ideology and British children's literature from 1850 to 1914, (2) a comparison of passages from books for adults and for children, (3) the use and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Aging (Individuals), Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliotherapy
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2002
This document presents the of an annual educational research forum held at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) on December 11, 2002. A table of contents and 27 research studies of high school teaching are included. Studies include: Effects of the Earth/Environmental Science Requirement on High School Science Enrollment in North…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, French, Religious Factors, High Schools
