The purposes of this study were: (1) to ascertain the relative importance of selected attributes of curriculum development in vocational and technical education in Ethiopia, (2) to ascertain the extent of agreement in opinions among selected specialists in the United States, vocational-technical teachers and secondary school principals in Ethiopia…

This preliminary work in human communication for librarians is designed to help the library profession address itself to significant communication problems. As they relate to the library and information sciences, the three major areas of communication science covered are: (1) History and theory of communication and culture, organization and…

Teaching style of junior and senior high teachers was investigated through student perceptions of "good" and "bad" teachers. Nearly 500 sets of unstructured, raw student comments were content analyzed from a communication standpoint. The four major dimensions of the communication framework were: Social Aspects, Presentation, Expressive Aspects,…

The seven Barber Scales of Self-Regard for Preschool Children were developed to provide instruments for assessing levels of development for individual children. The purpose of this study was to probe into the question of whether or not raters (mothers, fathers, teachers) had difficulties rating children on the scales. Two sources of evidence were…

Discusses ten major current trends in science curriculum. The trends identify new issues and directions in science education, show that science education grows with the needs of time. Warns against the threat of economic and social forces causing retrenchment in the goals and standards of science education. (GA)

Explores the connection between reading and writing implicit in children's creative writing and highlights the similarity between processes of reading and writing. (JC)

Examines six recent basal series and compares them to books used in older studies to find evidence of improvement in the portrayal of female characters. (JC)

Describes a study in which twenty first grade students wrote daily in journals, which were then analyzed at the end of the school year. (JC)

Notes that the African oral tradition of storytelling is giving way to an expansion of published works for children. (JC)

Investigates the effects of recency and specific story content on the development of moral reasoning in four-, seven-, and 11- year-old children and college freshmen. Analyses confirmed that in general younger children judged on consequence, except on stories containing intentional injury to a person, whereas older children utilized intention.…

The different ways professional historians have interpreted slavery are discussed, and television mini-series dealing with slavery are examined to determine what version or interpretation of slavery they have presented. This information is intended to help U.S. history teachers better plan specific classroom strategies when teaching about slavery.…

This study was conducted at College of the Canyons (COC), California, in spring 2002 by the Office of Institutional Development and Technology, along with Communications Studies instructor Victoria Leonard. Eighty-three class sections were surveyed to determine the degree to which students agreed or disagreed that their course syllabus clearly…

The Science Communication Interest Group Division of the proceedings contains the following 7 papers: "Forecasting the Future: How Television Weathercasters' Attitudes and Beliefs about Climate Change Affect Their Cognitive Knowledge on the Science" (Kris Wilson); "The Web and E-Mail in Science Communication: Results of In-Depth…

Most validity studies of ISLLC standards and indicators rely heavily on focus groups and perceptual surveys. This study included self-report and observational data on principals' use of time. A content analysis tested ISLLC's descriptions of instructional leadership with a related set of Kentucky's Standards and Indicators for School Improvement…

The inner world of education is explored through the examination of different types of educational materials. Content analysis and symbolic interactionism are used to study educational and pedagogical communication. These approaches are used in four studies of educational texts. Chapter 1, "Study of Educational Texts," introduces the…