In a movie retelling task that was concerned with the moral dilemma of how to treat a hurt wild animal, the extended preparatory dialogues of seven effective middle-class mothers and their 5-year-olds were studied to develop a moral script and dialogic inquiry model of scaffolding children's narrative competency. A content analysis of the…

Since teachers are the key to educational reform, teacher self-evaluations are critical aspects of change. In an inservice course on teaching reading comprehension through retellings, teachers were asked to examine their practices and reflect on a different method of assessing student comprehension. Focus was on teacher change and fears of change…

Increasing interest in research on workplace learning and performance provides an ideal opportunity to examine how much research is actually published and to identify the focus of research in HRD. This study involved a content analysis of articles on workplace learning and performance published in the four AHRD journals. Results indicated studies…

A study was undertaken to assess college and university mass communication program World Wide Web site content, functionality, and value, and to gauge faculty members' opinions related to Web site creation and maintenance. Descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and t-tests were used to address three hypotheses relating to Web site use by…

A study investigated the portrayal of mothers and fathers in Japanese and non-Japanese children's literature and how stereotypically they are depicted as role models. Japanese public libraries contain many translated foreign books, mostly Western in origin. For this study's purposes, 25 Japanese books, 25 translated books from English-speaking…

A study examined eight best-selling hybrid texts for public speaking or speech communication courses, looking at how each text is organized, what the focus is, which topics are included, how many pages are dedicated to each topic, which pedagogical features are incorporated into each text, and what ancillaries are available with each text. The…

Because of its interactive and multimedia nature, the Internet has been highly touted as an increasingly important aspect of elementary and secondary education. Research on Internet use, however, indicates that few teachers are actually integrating this medium into their lesson plans in a meaningful way. The paper discusses how the National…

The American Textbook Council identified the nation's leading social studies textbooks based on estimated volume of sales and on adoptions in California, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, and New York. Three multi-volume elementary-level programs and about a dozen secondary-level history textbooks command the market. The history textbooks at the…

This paper contends that teaching students about the dangers of weak communication methodology allows them the opportunity to not accept such studies at face value. The paper details the use in an introductory mass communication course of a study of newspaper coverage concerning the 1969 Santa Barbara, California, oil spill. The paper's close…

Factor analyses of item correlations for 488 men indicated the presence of 14 dimensions of interest. An analysis of the correlations among the factor scores revealed four higher level factors named People-Related, Mechanical and Symbol Manipulation, Personal Expression and the Arts, and Outdoor Activities. The 14 content scales developed were…

Now that he has had the opportunity to reflect upon a report by the National Commission on the Reform of Secondary Education, the author gives us his thoughtful reflections about many of their recommendations. (Editor/RK)

An interdisciplinary, in-depth study involving 40 children and nine families was conducted among Canadian Indians in order to learn their attitudes toward education. (Author/RK)

Discusses the controversy regarding censorship and freedom of speech in the high school newspaper. (RB)