The booklet reviews the largely inadequate treatment of Nazi persecution of the Jews in history textbooks and presents an annotated list of other books which treat the Holocaust in depth. Studies of texts commonly used in high school, college freshman survey of Western civilization courses, and advanced university history courses show that…

It is the contention of this paper that there are general principles which determine the choice of the form of the diminutive and that these principles can and should be included in a first-year college Spanish text. The paper begins with a critical analysis of the traditional rules for diminutive formation, followed by a review of the information…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the extent to which sexism exists in elementary and secondary textbooks. The findings of two recent studies of elementary and secondary textbooks are summarized and directed to four questions: Do textbooks describe the real world as females and males experience it in our society? Should textbooks describe…

This study has three purposes: (1) to determine if there were differences in the readability levels of the content-oriented textbooks and the reading levels of students in grades 10, 11, and 12; (2) to determine the percentage of students in each grade for whom the textbooks were too difficult; and (3) to determine the cost of those textbooks…

Means of aiding children when they are reading in a content field were suggested. The author pointed out that there are various structural or organizational patterns in different kinds of texts, and if students were made aware of these patterns they would have a way of preorganizing themselves to increase comprehension. The specialized content…

The direction of the facilitative effect of questions inserted at intervals in prose material is examined in terms of: 1) the testual distance of the questions from the material to which it refers; and 2) the relationship between the information tested by the inserted questions and that tested by the criterion test items. Results with 140…

This article looks at why educational publishers produce materials for children with a limited regard for children's interests. (CD)

On the basis of the frequency of family-related concepts in 60 college psychology textbooks, the article recommends that psychology teaching and research concentrate on the interaction of an individual with his familial and environmental surroundings. (DB)

Attitude changes in undergraduates enrolled in a foundations of education course assigned to two different types of reading material--controversial and persuasive, and traditional--were examined. Lasting attitudinal changes were found in students under the first condition. (Author/JKS)

A survey of both junior and four-year college composition instructors revealed definite similarities in their preferences in a composition handbook. (MKM)

Urges editors to evaluate the educational concepts underlying commercial educational materials and to determine whether the concepts are in accord with the findings of educational research. (DD)

In order to prevail as viable instruments for learning in this day of close scrutiny and increased demands, textbooks must improve to meet society's expectations and educational trends. After discussing alternatives to textbooks and criticism of how textbooks are written, considers nine educational principles that textbooks can be expected to…

This County in West Virginia is the scene of a continuing protest over the content of textbooks used in the public schools. This protest is interpreted as the politics of life style concern. Protestors are expressing a direct concern about the erosion of their control over their way of life. (Author/AM)

This examination of textbooks shows the very wide range of approaches adopted. Aims, content, and methods of presentation are compared. The uses of questions in the books are examined in detail. The characteristics of the books are related to the variety of approaches to the teaching of biology in schools. (Author/MA)

Proposes a system that can be used to analyze and evaluate any language teaching method at any level, by breaking down a particular method and comparing it to another, in terms of linguistic and sociocultural content, methodological organization; and physical quality. (AM)