The agenda-setting hypothesis that the media "cause" people to think about certain topics was tested in interviews with a panel of 69 residents of a small southern Illinois community in July 1975 and April 1976. Respondents were asked what they read in the daily newspaper and what local topics they had talked about recently. In addition,…

Content analysis is a systematic and objective technique which reduces into smaller sub-parts existing communications. It is the analytical reduction of a text to a standard set of statistically manipulatable symbols representing the presence, intensity, or frequency of characteristics. A case study of the use of content analysis is the U.S.…

Twenty books, pamphlets and booklets given by South Bend-Mishawaka, Indiana obstetricians and family practice physicians to expectant mothers were studied to determine their supportiveness towards breast feeding. Only booklets with four or more paragraphs on infant feeding were used. Successful and unsuccessful breast feeding and supportive and…

A list of 100 books recommended for kindergarten use were reviewed and evaluated for elements of sexism and sex role stereotyping. Each book was carefully scanned and notations made on survey sheets. The story was checked to see if it was a boy or girl centered story, had an adult male or adult female character, male or female animal or inanimate…

This report presents the principal objectives and results of the Context Information Processing Project and discusses the nature of context and its relationship to conventional models of information storage and retrieval. In this approach literature searching involves prediction, and context represents a new class of clues to be obtained and…

The purpose of this report is to summarize the content of a series of lectures given at the School of Library Science, State University of New York at Albany. Four summaries are presented. "The Limits of Information Retrieval" discusses the need for a theory of documentation and how it can be derived. "The Structure of Notification" considers in…

A review of Jeanne Chall's book "Learning to Read: The Great Debate" is presented. A summary of the book's research and a reaction to its content are offered. The following four elements considered important to effective reading instruction are listed: (1) teacher competence, (2) pacing, (3) method, and (4) content (motivation). The manner in…

Described here is a pilot development of a method for analyzing the structural content of a set of teaching materials, underwritten by the Committee for Cooperation on English in Japan and conducted in cooperation with the Fulbright Program in Japan and the English Language Education Department of the Faculty of Education at Hiroshima University.…

This document presents four articles concerning content analysis. The first article reviews content analysis as a research tool for higher education. Content analysis, a research methodology eminently well-suited to legislation prediction, is examined in the second article. The third article, the characterization of American student dissent in…

College administrators were asked to comment on press coverage of disturbances at colleges and universities and to suggest ways to improve coverage. Two samplings of their views took place, one in 1969 and one in 1971. All pertinent replies were content analyzed. The main charges were of improper balance, news distortion, and/or inaccurate…

Forty-one 10th grade biology tests prepared by commercial publishers, test bureaus, and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study were analyzed using the six major categories of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. Of the 2,689 test items classified, 71.88% were Knowledge, 15.17% Comprehension, 11.49%…

Intended primarily as an aid for secondary teachers of American literature, this book discusses fiction in which the hero is a young person. The techniques of teaching content and style of literature are presented. Twenty-three works of fiction are considered. (DB)

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…

In response to the increasing social concern for the quality of the environment and its conservation, and the need to ensure that all pupils in their final years of schooling be brought to share that concern, teachers in Hertfordshire, England, have constructed an 'A' level curriculum or syllabus of environmental studies for the sixth form. Based…

Content and task dimensions of science items were studied using factor analytic techniques. These items were developed to measure concept attainment using a completely crossed design with 30 concepts and 12 tasks. Conventional factor analyses were performed, separately for boys and girls, for concept scores and for task scores. Three-mode factor…