Feminist analysis discusses how recreation literature from 1907-90 portrayed women. Content analysis found a rich history of females' recreation involvement, drawing parallels about female recreation and womens' social roles in society. The literature reflected the social roles of females in recreation activities in seven eras. (SM)

Content analysis of National Network of State Conferences for School Worksite Wellness conference components for 22 states analyzed conference goals, keynote sessions, workshops, and evaluations. There was substantial variability among states (e.g., length of conference and workshop content), but all states conducted evaluations and used the…

Compares the characteristics of children's books that received critical acclaim from adults and were "Children's Choices" to books that received critical acclaim only. Finds that the stylistic and structural differences between the two groups of books are more apparent than variations in themes. (RS)

Reports that a goal and item analysis of eight history and systems of psychology textbooks and their accompanying test item files showed that the majority of the essay test items are too narrow in scope to measure the commonly stated course goals. Presents some integrative and goal-relevant essay questions to rectify this shortcoming. Includes a…

Studies the effects of the visual component of television news upon viewer recall of content. Asserts that story brevity, background information scarcity, and the combination of visual and verbal information in television news militate against learning by viewers. Concludes that visual elements tend to be more memorable than verbal ones. (SG)

Examines the emerging market for information professionals, including employment opportunities and educational requirements, based on a study conducted at Indiana University. Results of content analysis of job advertisements, survey responses of library school graduates, and field interviews with information specialists are discussed; and…

Study analyzed 117 articles on African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans published in 1980s in 4 major social work journals. Concluded that most of literature on social work practice with minorities is naive and superficial and fails to address their social context. (Author/NB)

Examines sex and geographic representation in two books: "History of Public School Music in the United States" (Birge, 1937), and "A History of American Music Education" (Mark and Gary, 1992). Finds that both display statistically significant inequitable representation of sex and region of the country, with little improvement…

Describes advantages and disadvantages of time-line interviewing and inductive content analysis for studying information users' cognitive behaviors. Uses examples from a study of users' criteria for their relevance judgments in a multimedia information environment and discusses reliability, validity, and future directions. (Author/LRW)

Examines the potential of the World Wide Web as an information and bibliographic source for scientists. Analyzes through content analysis the Web pages retrieved by the major search engines on a particular date as a result of a query regarding informetrics, and compares results to data retrieved from commercial databases. (Author/LRW)

Contributes to rhetorical theory and to an understanding of social movements and countermovements by examining the journal of a Massachusetts anti-suffrage organization. Finds that it was principally reactive, that its basic themes illustrated the ideology of the anti-suffrage movement, and that this ideology was reflected in the organizational…

Explored the usefulness of Galileo, a computerized neural-network content analysis program, in analyzing 11th-grade students' essays on the problems of Chicago public schools and how to solve them. Without subjective coding or characterization of the essays, the program detected salient, meaningful patterns of statistically associated words that…

Examines (1) the purpose statements and the contents of six selected songbooks for community singing published from 1913 to 1996 and (2) songs listed by E. D. Hirsch in "Cultural Literacy" and "The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy." Indicates that the idea of a common core of song repertoire that represents our heritage should be reexamined. (CMK)

Identifies 40 articles about women and feminism published in five technical communication journals in a period of nine years. Notes major themes, all concerning inclusion. Concludes that although research about women and feminism has been accepted as part of the scholarly purview of technical communication, the ways in which this research has…

A review of 995 abstracts of journal articles retrieved from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database by using the descriptor "mainstreaming" found that the number of opinion articles increased markedly from 1986 through 1989. Over the whole period (1982 through 1993), research articles were dominated by surveys of…