Analyzed 410 items of interpersonal feedback from nine groups for message content quality and recipient acceptance. Explored the effects of leader versus member delivery, session of delivery, and feedback valence on dependent measures. Leader feedback was highest in quality, and positive feedback was more accepted than negative feedback. (BH)

A study of the coverage of 14 major events of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals little evidence that newspaper journalists wrote their leads to correspond with those of wire service stories. (FL)

Examines the interpersonal communication of main characters in three novels. Concludes that the heuristic propositions that emerge from this study might be useful in the study and understanding of real life interpersonal experiences. (PD)

Offers guidelines for statistical analysis to help determine the accuracy and appropriateness of statistics presented in a document. Provides example of commonly used techniques for manipulating statistics. (HTH)

A linguistic analysis of a prose text from Somerset Maugham's "On a Chinese Screen" is made under the following four heads: (1) Content and Organization; (2) Lexis; (3) Grammatical Structure; and (4) Typographical Features. (CFM)

Calls for new freshman English texts that emphasize communicative competency. (DD)

Description of the method and results of a study that evaluated introductory psychology textbooks according to their human interest and readability. It updates a previous study. (ND)

More than five hundred chemistry/science text books from a variety of countries and written at all levels of education have been looked at to see how they dealt with the topic of physical and chemical change. Textbooks have continued to cover this chemical topic for over one hundred years. What evidence do school textbooks contain about the…

The purpose of the original study was to investigate practicum student teachers' reflectivity. This paper describes the use of a revised version of the Reflective Pedagogical Thinking Scale (Sparks-Langer, et al., 1990) to measure reflectivity. The original scale was used by the developers to assess reflectivity through a structured interview. The…

This study examined the quantity and quality of narratives and graphics concerned with disability in children's magazines prior to and after Public Law 94-142, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act, enacted in 1975. Content analysis was conducted on "Highlights for Children," selected for its longevity and wide circulation and…

As the shock of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was drawing down, the author decided to peruse the International Relations (IR) textbooks on his home and office shelves to determine what students would find to help them make sense out of the events that so stunned the nation. Consulting ten different textbooks, he found "sloppy…

This book presents a method for the qualitative assessment of text difficulty, a method that relies on a total impression rather than on an analysis of text features. The method is based on matching samples of text to exemplars that have been scaled for comprehension difficulty. These exemplars range in difficulty from those suitable for the…

The purpose of this project was to perform an analysis of the Rockford Public Library (Illinois) circulation services department and provide recommendations leading to customer service improvement, better space utilization, and improved departmental work flow. Based on an analysis of input from individual interviews with staff, review of…