Reports results of a content analysis that was conducted to determine the coverage of issues relating to academic libraries in the "Chronicle of Higher Education." Topics discussed include automation; presidential libraries; special collections; copyright; federal legislation; and a bias toward the Washington, D.C., area and toward large…

A study of pedagogy, form, and content of the "Irish Readers," the first textbooks authorized for Upper Canada (1846), gives an ideological picture of society. Class-specific social theory of the time structured the textbooks, and the Readers assisted in the promulgation of a specific world view. (SLD)

Results are presented from a study that used content analysis of two health education journals, over a five-year period, to ascertain the extent to which health educators are writing about teacher education and to determine which components and current trends associated with teacher education programs are being addressed. (IAH)

Presents fourteenth annual review of professional literature on vocational behavior. Looks at several substantive areas of research: vocational choice, career development, decision making, interventions on career development and productivity, job search, industrial/organizational measurement issues, personnel issues, adjustment and development in…

Describes a software evaluation program being initiated by the National Resource for Computers in Life Science Education (NRCLSE) that will provide software authors with feedback as well as provide users with information. Peer critiques which will address content and instructional design are explained, and evaluation guidelines are outlined. (five…

Explores the role of sociologists in identifying social problems in the context of teaching. Analyzes the content of 51 college-level social problems textbooks by focusing on their treatment of war. Offers empirical data concerning the role of sociologists as definers of social problems. Notes implications for the discipline. Bibliography of…

The introductory article for the first issue of this journal reviews the issues and process that led to the decision by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) board to co-publish the "Educational Communication and Technology Journal" and the "Journal of Instructional Development" in a new journal.…

Analyzes seven college-level U.S. history survey texts to determine the deteriorating quality of college history textbooks. Focuses on three areas: (1) the simplification of style and content, (2) indications of implicit censorship, and (3) the lack of a thematic structure which would contribute to the students' understanding of history. (LS)

Examines the role of metaphors (particularly visual metaphors) in communicating social values associated with new communication technology by analyzing magazine advertisements for computing and advanced telecommunications products and services. Finds that the "lever" and the "synthesis of old and new values" metaphors are dominant in both general…

Summarizes the experimental evidence that indicates that text indexing systems based on the assignment of appropriately weighted single terms produce retrieval results superior to those obtained with more elaborate text representations, and provides baseline single term indexing models with which more elaborate content analysis procedures can be…

Suggests picture books are made more difficult for kids to predict, to make sense of, and to learn from by fitting them into the didactic framework of basals. Discusses the picture book genre. Compares the original version of "Ira Sleeps Over" to the basal version. Examines in detail how picture books are made to fit into a basal…

Directors of police academies in all 50 states were contacted regarding training policies for new officers. Of 48 states responding, 36 reported they require instruction on persons with disabilities. Analysis of training content revealed that most academies provide training about mental illness, but few include training about learning…

Discusses the design of graphical user interfaces. Highlights include conceptual models, including user needs, content, and what multimedia can do; and tools for building the users' mental models, including metaphor, natural mappings, prompts, feedback, and user testing. (LRW)

Study examined how secondary student teachers in history read and interpreted historical texts, constructed truthful accounts, and approached an epistemology of history. Subjects read and thought about the same eight documents. Results indicated that the nature of student teaching may not lend itself well to reflection on epistemological matters.…

Qualitative content analysis of three texts used to prepare trade and industrial teachers in occupational safety and health examined definitions of health/safety problems, allocation of responsibility, social context, and collective responsibility. Implementing practices from these texts could free teachers from responsibility for negligence and…