The purpose of the analysis was to provide a profile of instructional activities related to content and referenced to specified instructional outcome areas. Emphasis was placed on determination of four major factors: (1) major outcomes in the program and their relative emphasis in both regular and supplementary instructional materials, (2) the…

Designed for the aspiring journalist and the professional editor, this revised second edition serves as a standard reference work as well as an ideal means of keeping abreast of new trends and developments in the editing of small magazines. It describes the latest technological developments in type-setting and production; discusses and evaluates…

Several studies in media viewing have examined the hypothesis that alienation correlates with the consumption of escape-type content from the mass media. In order to interpret this result, alienation was considered as a process beginning with difficiulties in situation definitions. It was assumed in this study that heavy information of the mass…

These four characteristics inherent in criterion-referenced tests form the central theme of this paper: (1) The classes of behaviors that define different achievement levels are specified as clearly as possible before the test is constructed; (2) Each behavior class is defined by a set of test situations (that is, test tasks) in which the…

The children's books which have been awarded the Caldecott medal for each year's finest illustrations in juvenile literature exemplify the best in book making and in color reproduction and are among the best examples of art available to children. However, a recent study of the content of these books shows that both the text and the illustrations…

Literary analysis is approached as an atypical research modality: a modality that falls outside the parameters of experimental research usually described in the literature of educational meta-research. It is maintained that atypical research is appropriate as ancillary and complementary to typical research. Following Guba's explication of…

In an attempt to uncover the influence of primary reading textbook content on reading achievement, both historical and contemporary reading textbooks were analyzed in terms of sex role portrayal in a variety of settings. The implications of the observed portrayals for children's own sex role modeling are discussed. Among the observations are: a…

An expanded abstract and a critical analysis for each of 17 research articles are given. Four of the articles are concerned with evaluating methods of instruction, seven deal with evaluation of achievement and attitudes, two present research in teacher education, and the remaining four articles investigate basic patterns of learning. (Editor/DT)

There are at least two types of analyses suitable to language produced in an institutional environment. One focuses on the manifest, first level of meaning, while the other concentrates on the latent, more complex elements which are implied rather than overtly expressed. The purpose of this study was to apply content analysis to an examination of…

The way superintendents perceive their mobility and the succession of routes they use in attaining their positions were compared. A stratified random sample was drawn from the total population of public school superintendents in Illinois based on an extension of the insider-outsider dichotomy. It was found that outsiders tended to use more general…

Quantitative techniques of content analysis were used on documentary and mass communication material from Communist China as a means of identifying and accounting for social, political, and economic change in that society. Articles from "The People's Daily" and the "China Youth Post," radio dispatches, wall posters, terms, and…

A course of instruction in instructional technology was designed, consisting of pre-recorded audio tapes, filmstrips, and this workbook. The workbook is in looseleaf form with space for notes and is to be retained by the participant on completion of the course. Fifteen units are outlined covering behavioral objectives, tests, stimulus and…

This study describes and analyzes, in a critical literary manner, selected biographies for children eight to twelve years of age. Biographies of Jane Addams, Cesar Chavez, Mohandas Gandhi, Toyohiko Kagawa, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Albert Schweitzer are viewed from the perspective of a literary criterion based on the principles of design to…

Some 3,000 proposals submitted for Research Grants in Education and Small Grants, two of the major topic areas in the 1973 Field Initiated Studies (FIS) program of the National Institute of Education (NIE), are analyzed in this report to identify research features which seemed to receive priority emphasis and to describe some of the methodological…

Designed to describe and categorize the topics in a classroom or small-group discussion of literature, this instrument is a content analysis scheme. After segmenting into statements the typed transcript of an audio-recorded literature discussion, the researcher categorizes each statement into one of four categories--position, nature, stance, and…