Professor Lumsdaine, while in general agreement with Professor Glaser on the importance of behavioral objectives, stresses the need for providing an explicit rationale or foundation for evaluation. Emphasis is placed upon improving the technology of evaluation and creating a better market for assessment data and the standards for the adequacy of…

This paper comments on Gagne's classification scheme with respect to learning outcomes, and offers a research design appropriate for instructional research studies. It challenges certain assumptions concerning correspondence between subject matter and categories, and asserts that the logic of experimental analysis should be applied to…

As part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading, this volume reports the results of the study concerned with critical reading--that part of reading behavior which requires analysis and reasoning. Results of the reading exercises are reported for four age levels (9, 13, 17, and young adult, 26-35), four regions of the country…

Contends that conventional teaching and textbooks fail to promote a critical analysis of the content they convey. Argues that failure to examine the meanings of words and ideas dehumanizes education, divorces knowledge from power, and promotes viewpoints which are both parochial and ahistoric. Describes how critical reading and the use of…

Suggests that teachers who draw on literature as they engage children in the writing process provide a rich and reliable source of knowledge. (DF)

Describes elements to look for when reading four identifiable sections of a research report: background and literature review, methodology and procedures, analysis, findings or summary. Literature review as prologue to author's argument, choices in design of a study, research participants, choices involved in analysis, and implications of findings…

Discusses two articles addressing the problem of how to read and evaluate library research in a critical, consumer-oriented manner: Margaret Hayes Grazier's "Critically Reading and Applying Research in School Library Media Centers" (1982) and M. Carl Drott's "How to Read Research: An Approach to the Literature for Practitioners" (1984). (EJS)

The authors stress the need for teaching gifted children to read creatively, which includes synthesizing information into meaningful relationships, and propose a 20-item checklist to generate objectives and activities for fostering creative reading development. (MC)

Systematic main idea instruction was delivered to minority high school students while a control group received instruction in vocabulary development. Those students who received main idea instruction performed better at identifying explict and main ideas in paragraphs and at restating and summarizing. General comprehension performance was not…

Describes two methods of getting students involved in relevant, business writing assignments: reaction papers to business journal articles and exercises in which communication students dictate letters to shorthand students. (AEA)

Presents Gregory Corso's poem, "Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway," as an intellectually profitable assignment graphically illustrating the metonymic and metaphoric modes. (MM)

Offers guidelines for statistical analysis to help determine the accuracy and appropriateness of statistics presented in a document. Provides example of commonly used techniques for manipulating statistics. (HTH)

Suggests that the attempt by students to guess at the underlying sense of a poem is encouraged by teachers' pursuit of right and wrong answers, failure to respond to form and context, and presentation of poetry at a level of conceptualization beyond students' ability to respond. (KS)

Notes that there are vast areas of art patiently awaiting the courage of the black person to assert his identity, to declare his genius, and, to give the world another view of man and his environment in through his vision. (Author/AM)