The purposes of this study were to prepare a set of four annotated articles on biochemistry from "Scientific American" and compare by means of specially-designed tests these articles with their nonannotated analogues to determine which of the two types lead to greater understanding of the contents of the latter. The population was 603 chemistry…

The third in a series of guides to British industrial training, this publication begins with a survey of training issues and tasks confronting the Road Transport Industry Training Board (RTITB). This is followed by information on RTITB policies and provisions; RTITB members, officers, and committees; apprenticeships and other training schemes;…

This bibliography is composed of 35 abstracts of master's theses and doctoral dissertations ranging in date from 1963 through 1968, and 26 citations selected from the Journal of Home Economics ranging in date from 1965 through 1968. The abstracts and citations relate to aspects of rehabilitation or habilitation and indicate the extent to which…

This paper summarizes a series of studies undertaken by the United States Information Agency Service between 1970 and 1972 in Bolivia, Great Britain, Argentina, and Lebanon. The purpose of the research was to develop new techniques for analyzing the audiences of USIA periodicals. Survey respondents--all members of USIA priority audience…

In the first section four articles illustrate the basic concepts of the role of the library in college instruction. The library-college movement is discussed; Swarthmore College's "Teaching Library" in particular is examined. The second section contains four articles about actively established programs in library instruction. Following…

Access is a journal published three or four times a year by Challenge for Change/Societe Nouvelle (CCSN). CCSN is an experimental program established by the Government of Canada as a cooperative effort between the National Film Board of Canada and certain of the Government's departments. Its purposes are to improve communications, create greater…

Annotated entries of 2172 books in journalism which have appeared between 1958 and 1968 comprise this volume. Materials are listed alphabetically, by author, and an index of names and subject headings is provided. General categories of entries are biographies, narratives of journalists at work, anthologies of journalistic writing, ethical and…

Over 5500 current and backfile titles of American, foreign, and Black community newspapers that may be purchased on 35mm. roll microfilm are indexed in this catalog. Historical annotations are provided for selected American, Asian, and other foreign newspapers as well as for collections which focus on areas of special interest: early America, the…

Mass communications are considered by many western scholars to be among the most potent tools for modernization of an underdeveloped country. This belief is based on two assumptions: that the mass media are large-scale operations which enjoy massive circulations or audiences and that they are primarily controlled by forward-looking, progressive…

This annotated bibliography on nongraded schools concentrates on the most recent books, periodicals and other publications. Thirty references are grouped under the headings theoretical, research, and practical. (KM)

Research in the field of Career Maturity is reviewed and summarized, with particular attention to Super's Career Pattern Study, Gribbons and Lohnes' Career Development Study, and Crites' Vocational Development Project. Crites' organization and revision into a hierarchical structure of the five dimensions of vocational maturity proposed in Supers'…

This book is devoted to a critical examination of magazines in America. It analyzes the current state of the magazine industry, the changes that have occurred in the past several decades, and the performance of the various types of magazines, in addition to forecasting the future of the magazine industry. The ten chapters examine (1) the forces…

A sample population of students from seventh grade through college, seen as a special audience rather than a mass of autonomous individuals, responded to the question: "If you got conflicting reports of the same news story from radio, television, newspapers, magazines, and other people, which one of these sources would you be most inclined to…

At this 1972 conference, upper division and graduate students from nine western colleges submitted papers on the theory, history, and criticism of rhetoric. Three of them are published in this conference report, along with the principal address. In "Rhetorical Criticism as Argument," the principal address, Wayne Brockriede suggests that useful…

The purpose of the review was to analyze the literature on feedback in order to identify specific feedback variables whose further study could make the greatest potential contribution to the design of effective instructional materials and of group instructional presentations. Sources included Psychological Abstracts, Research in Education,…