Indicates that popular methods texts used in college classes are no better than basal manuals in providing guidance in how to teach comprehension. (FL)

Describes a survey of how Italian is taught in South Australian primary classrooms. Teachers in six classrooms were observed and recorded to measure the language used, the amount of time spent speaking Italian and English, the language used by children, and the content of pupils' and teachers' spoken Italian. (SED)

Discusses levels of planning involved in developing interactive videodisc programs, including the macro decisions of hardware, authoring facility, and production format choices; and individual program planning, including content analysis, program design, and interaction development. (MBR)

Reports that graduate student research compares favorably to that of faculty research in many respects but that it has less emphasis on theory and on measuring affects. (FL)

Describes a technique for training teachers to analyze textbooks that could be used either in teacher training classes or inservice workshops. (HOD)

Contrasts the moral and social values of Thomas Hughes's "Tom Brown's Schooldays" with American school sports stories. (HOD)

A study aimed at developing a methodology for isolating and analyzing the value content of television programs is described and implications for education discussed. Three programs popular with children were found to present positive and negative values with equal frequency, though antisocial values were presented with greater intensity. (MJL)

The effects of three instructional procedures on reading comprehension and word recognition were compared with 21 learning disabled elementary school students. No differences were found among treatment effects on comprehension and oral reading. (Author/SW)

Discusses a number of books requiring the reader to examine their illustrations and pictures closely and making a visual statement that could be lost if only surface meanings are considered. (FL)

Investigated concerns, needs, and other characteristics of interpersonal relationships of adolescents (N=655) as reflected by stories written in response to pictures of people. Subjects were high school students and reformatory residents. Analysis indicated predominant themes were affiliation, aggression, achievement (sports), and drugs. Personal…

Notes that Nigerian children's literature, long neglected, is beginning to receive its due scholarly attention. Summarizes its characteristics and cites popular examples. (FL)

Studied conversation in a role play of assertive behavior of 58 college students and compared this with stylistic complexity derived from publications on assertiveness training. Results showed that for both samples assertive speakers used significantly more words, phrases and clauses than passive speakers. (LLL)

This article presents a description of one analysis of variance components model for estimating proportions of variance in process measures and illustrates this model by applying it to reports of patients' experiences in psychotherapeutic sessions to describe the extent to which these experiences are a function of differences among therapists.…

This report offers a brief summary of a master thesis that had the purpose to study the way conflict management educators write and think about "conflict." Using a critical discourse analysis (a la Foucault) of 22 conflict resolution manuals for adults and children (U.S., Canadian, Australian), and using a selected sample of those most available…

How widely adopted world history textbooks cover Islam and the history of the Middle East is a timely and important subject to explore. In 2001 the American Textbook Council began a comprehensive review of middle school and high school world history textbooks. The Council relied on respected historians and standard sources, influential articles…