Discusses content management software, which provides a platform for managing the creation, review, filtering, updating, distribution, and storage of structured and unstructured content. Topics include intranets and extranets; vendor selection; comparing vendor approaches; scoping studies; fees; project management; documentation; roll-out…

Presents a single framework for conducting topic analysis that performs both topic identification and text segmentation. Key characteristics of the framework are: representing a topic by means of a cluster of words closely related to the topic; and employing a stochastic model, called a finite mixture model, to represent a word distribution within…

Provides a wide range of information for 100 articles published from January 1980 through July 1999 that describe the functional assessment (FA) of behavior in school settings. Results indicate that FA is useful for ascertaining the variables that control high-frequency problem behaviors in students with low-incidence disabilities and for…

Content analysis of 11 adult development textbooks examined coverage of 5 adult education topics. There was extensive discussion of adult intelligence across most of the textbooks, but little information about the roles and functions of adult education in promoting adult development. Textbooks need to link developmental research and theory to…

Examines the identity of female characters who rescue male protagonists in three works of Newbery-winning fiction, and realizes their archetypal roles of Mother. Provides readers with a vehicle for revisiting the interaction among characters in young adult fiction. Presents a rationale for using literary criticism to help students explore how…

The first 10 years of 2 journals on online searching are compared in terms of vital statistics, editorial policies, citation data, author affiliations, subject analysis of titles, circulation, impact factors, and immediacy using data from SSCI Journal Citation Reports. (EAM)

Outlines an initial framework, five orientations and eight dimensions, based on information derived from the study of text analysis. Maintains that art education researchers need a multilayered framework to facilitate design of research that addresses the analysis of complex multidimensional data. (KM)

Studied the critical points made in 402 reviews of 153 papers submitted to 12 editors of American Psychological Association journals. Criticisms dealt with all steps in research activity from early conceptualizing to final writing. Typically, 2 reviews of the same paper had no critical point in common. Recommendations about editorial decisions…

Examines 57 introductory sociology texts from the 1980s. Critically summarizes how "common sense" is presented, discusses the legitimacy of common sense from both a philosophical and sociological view point, and makes suggestions for a more adequate interpretation of the relationship between this concept and sociology as a science. (KO)

Assessed frequency with which journals "Family Process" and "Journal of Marital and Family Therapy" focused on problems of aging in family context from 1976-1985. Found neither journal covered later life family issues to any appreciable degree. Concludes that elders in marital and family relationships constitute new frontier for extension and…

Reports results of a survey of 297 technology teachers at all educational levels concerning program content. Little information was available about technology education at the elementary and postsecondary levels; about two-thirds of secondary schools had a technology education program. Results indicate that change is occurring in technology…

This content analysis identifies trends in the kinds of research being conducted on gifted education. Major findings focus on: research reports as a percentage of the total literature, qualities of various computerized databases, varying topics of concern in non-research versus research literature, most frequently researched group, and most common…

Methods for teaching foreign-language literature actually teach students how to approach, understand, and develop their own method of literary criticism through scholarship, interpretation, and theory. (21 references) (CB)

Compared suicide notes of individuals using active and passive methods for suicide for presence of 50 classifications regarding psychodynamics of perturbation, lethality, relations, self-cognitions, etc. Two sets of notes resembled each other closely, only difference being that active group more often cited rejection by significant other as…

Examines citation patterns in introductory psychology textbooks of the recipients of the American Psychology Association's Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contribution. Compared recipient citations by time period and by gender. Determines that earlier recipients were cited more often in textbooks published in 1971, but in recent textbooks, no…