There is a national shortage of social workers who have the knowledge and skill competencies needed for practice with our rapidly growing older adult population. In the last decade, research has identified many reasons for the lack of interest in gerontological social work and steps that could be pursued within social work education to remedy the…

Research on teachers' (personal) theories and beliefs and their (practical) knowledge derived from experience, whether held implicitly or stated explicitly as their personal practical theories (PPTs), indicates that such beliefs can influence teachers' classroom practices and, therefore, the opportunities that their students have for learning.…

An increasingly large number of educational facilities offer online graduate education courses. Their popularity grows as busy educators search for a way to advance their careers by earning additional degrees without spending more time in the classroom as a student. One concern with online learning is that online courses lack the interaction…

One issue each of "Time" and "Newsweek" from each month of 1982 was selected at random and content analyzed to determine the use of anonymous attribution. Stories from the "National/Nation" and "International World" sections were analyzed for use of anonymous sources, that is a direct or paraphrased quote…

Tells how one staff solved its financial problems by changing the layout of the yearbook. (RB)

Describes some of the changes that are occurring in high school and college yearbooks. (RB)

Concludes that "Good Housekeeping" magazine adheres to formula writing in fiction as most of the highest paying magazines do. (RB)

Traces changes in the front page news coverage of the New York "Times" over the past seven decades to determine if there were increases in in-depth coverage, how the news came to the "Times," and what changes have occurred in the local, national, and world coverage. (RB)

Ethnocentrism, elitism, and news distance are seen as more important in determining foreign news content in Israeli and American newspapers than physical distance between nations. (RB)

Described a computer program, designed to allow a totally objective, associationally sensible, and reasonably efficient method for selecting the best word subset for analysis within the framework of WORDS, which recognoized and analyzed major content themes in natural language. (Author/RK)

A heuristic procedure, suggested by Harald Weinrich, for the explication of "text coherence" or "textuality" is examined and critically analyzed. A text model emerging from this critical analysis is then adduced as an example. The concept of "transition" in particular, introduced into the debate by Weinrich, reveals…

Authors believed that sharper definitions of open education can keep the current movement authentic to its early consensus ideals while avoiding dogma, orthodoxy, discipleships: charisma, and latter-day carpetbagging. (Author/RK)

Investigates, through content analysis, some of the variables involved in the coverage "Time,""Newsweek," and "U.S. News and World Report," give to United States Senators. (RB)

A discussion of form and content in art and the theories of Goethe and Schiller. (CK)