Provides a qualitative content analysis of photographs of the hallway displays in three elementary schools. Notes that the forms and functions of things displayed on hallway walls reveal much about school culture, what is valued, and what educational tools are and are not being used. Suggests how educators can use hallway display areas to support…

Discusses digital collections and digital libraries. Topics include broadband availability; digital rights protection; content, both non-profit and commercial; digitization of cultural content; sustainability; metadata harvesting protocol; infrastructure; authorship; linking multiple resources; data mining; digitization of reference works;…

Considers the practice of Instructional Systems Design (ISD) as it exists in the real world and how it is being modified and used to produce training solutions that are faster, better, and easier. Focuses on Web-based training and discusses needs assessment, content analysis, design strategies, revision strategies, and project management.…

Content analysis of 158 Human Resource Development Quarterly articles showed that most did not mention nonresponse error as a threat to validity or did not control for it. Recommendations for handling nonresponse error included comparing early to late respondents, using "days to respond" as a regression variable, comparing respondents…

Twenty-one college textbooks and 16 readers in the sociology of the family and marriage and the family were examined for their treatment of adoption. A content analysis showed that little attention was devoted to adoption and that the coverage provided was predominantly negative, stressing the potential problems of adoption about twice as often as…

Presents an account of the discourse of disability in the "Reader's Digest" during its first 30 years (1922-1952). Concludes that the construction of disability in the "Digest" raises important questions that should enter the field of disability studies. (PM)

Examines gender stereotyping in children's picture books. A survey of current material indicates only a small increase in the number and prominence of female characters. Discusses the history of gender stereotypes in children's literature and their effect on cognitive development. (DM)

Executed systematic content analysis on written symbols (graffiti) in a school for delinquent high school boys. Compared graffiti themes by social class. Identified three classes of graffiti: love-courtship-sex; belonging-identity; and extremism. Found little difference between classes on love-courtship-sex theme but significant differences in…

Examines the pictorial coverage of African Americans in three major national magazines. Finds that African Americans increased visibility in photographs. Groups the photographs of African Americans into three time periods: (1) stereotyping (1937-52); (2) civil rights (1957-72); and (3) working within the system (1978-88). (RS)

Discusses the theories of instructional design methodologies and describes limitations for developing instruction for interactive, technology-based delivery systems. Topics discussed include content analysis; knowledge acquisition; course organization; phases of instructional development; passive versus interactive instruction; productivity and…

Identifies the 6 major elements of entrepreneurship, and examines the treatment of each element by 15 major introductory economics textbooks. Results indicate that entrepreneurship is not adequately covered, causing students to miss important understandings about the workings of the market economy. Recommends that teachers provide supplementary…

Compared content of legislative summaries of family policies of Nevada, Minnesota, and South Carolina in 1979, 1982/83, and 1985. Found that the three states differed markedly in terms of quantity and substance of the explicit family legislation they enacted with Nevada individualistic, Minnesota moralistic, and South Carolina traditionalistic.…

Describes study that examined similarities and differences between the "Journal of Instructional Development" and "Educational Communication and Technology Journal." Highlights include the results of a content analysis, and the extent to which novices and experts could distinguish between the journals by classifying articles…

Examined characteristics of "The Journal of Humanistic Education and Development" and the earlier "Humanist Educator" regarding author information, editorial board membership, and general content. Found that majority of the Association for Humanistic Education and Development officers, editorial board, and authors have been from the southern…

Compares the dress of adult models in magazine advertisements in 1964 and 1984. Finds that nudity is more prevalent in magazine ads in 1984 than in 1964. (RS)