This study was designed to determine what effect knowledge of value clarification would have on the reading comprehension of eighth graders. The use of value clarification involves students in decision making, identification with characters or situations, evaluative judgments, appreciations, and so forth. In this study reading comprehension was…

The effect of the use of selected values clarification strategies on self-concept, school sentiment, and reading achievement was investigated in a sample of 240 pupils in grades four, five, and six, of two elementary schools. Teachers in the experimental school were trained in values clarification through a series of workshops; teachers in the…

In this study, reading textbooks were analyzed for moral content. From the findings of this analysis the extent of the use of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development in the textbooks was determined. The greatest amount of attention in one series was given to the category of helpfulness, while little attention was given to the categories of…

The primary concern of this study was the observable aspects of the valuing process as that process becomes apparent in adolescents' expressed responses to short stories. A secondary concern was to determine to what degree the reading of fiction facilitates the valuing process and to conjecture about the benefit of value strategies for teaching…