Responses by 200 psychologist couples asking them to delinerate problem areas were content analyzed. The larger number of problems cited by subjects were due to the fact that women were willing to place their careers secondary to needs of their families and needs of their husband's careers. (Author)

Analyzes the five most widely used sets of adult basic education materials. An inquiry into socioeconomic class focuses on four ideological concepts: the "harmony of interests,""blaming the victim,""individualims," and "the happy consciousness" of society as a rational provider of people with satisfying lives. (Author/JM)

Interviews with participants in a professional development school identified expectations of the partnership (student focus, better trained teachers), positive outcomes (real-world experience for student teachers, extra attention for students, professional growth for participating teachers), and problems (communication between school and…

Examines the adequacy of descriptions of counseling psychology and its professionals in introductory psychology textbooks compared to the descriptions of other applied areas of psychology. Results indicate that counseling psychology is less represented than industrial or organizational and clinical psychology and more represented than school…

Contrasts the traditional method of teaching college reading, which is based on behaviorist theory, with the modern model, which is based on psycholinguistic theory. Categorizes 20 current, popular reading textbooks as traditional, modern, or mixed. Argues that psycholinguistic theory will dominate in the next century, not only as a theory for…

Discusses indexing and retrieval for effective searches of digitized images. Reports on an empirical study about criteria for analysis and indexing digitized images, and the different types of user queries done in newspaper image archives in Denmark. Concludes that it is necessary that the indexing represent both a factual and an expressional…

Discusses the need for careful evaluation of Web sites and the use of HTML, particularly by librarians, to be most helpful to users. Evaluation of a Web site's purpose, identification, authority, layout and design, links, and content are considered. (LRW)

Examines syntactic choices available to journal article writers for making reporting statements and the conditions governing such choices. The article investigates the way in which the choice of theme affects the syntactic form of the reports. The resulting syntactic forms are shown to be associated with the function of reports in their contexts.…

A parent of a child with multiple disabilities and profound delays comments on the quantity and quality of Individualized Education Program (IEP) objectives concerning social competence in preschoolers with disabilities. The paper stresses the critical importance of social competence and the need for schools to give it priority over achieving…

Performed a content analysis of information needs and uses literature published from 1990-94. Primary analyses measured the degree of interdisciplinarity evident in references cited, determined whether the literature was concerned with users' cognitive processes and systems' design and use, and identified research methods. (Author/PEN)

Discusses a study of young adult literature in light of contemporary literary theories; family relationships in selected young adult novels by Cynthia Vogt and Sue Ellen Bridgers; teaching young adult literature, moral inquiry, and the personal journey toward meaning; and using recorded books in a high school classroom. (RS)

Argues that the National Science Education Standards uses a discourse of invisibility to lay out its reform for science education and does not directly address ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, and theoretical issues. Proposes that the standards ought to provide arguments and evidence in support of the reasons why equity should be a guiding principle…

Examines leading Reconstruction-era newspapers for language about African American civil rights in coverage of three post-Civil War Constitutional amendments. Finds that diminishing concern for African American civil rights in Northern papers, coupled with border and Southern papers suggesting that blacks were not worthy of equal rights, likely…

Investigates situational elements of the home as a Web use environment, examining how domestic settings influenced people's Web search activities and behaviors. The subjects, 12 participants in 10 households, were found to search on the Web more frequently, more briefly, and less intensely for broader and more diverse information. Results have…

Examines the extent to which industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology is covered within introductory psychology textbooks (n=54). Determined whether I/O psychology was in a section, appendix, or chapter; and also compiled the number of pages that contained I/O psychology. Reports that only one-fourth of the textbooks had an overview. (CMK)