A review of Jeanne Chall's book "Learning to Read: The Great Debate" is presented. A summary of the book's research and a reaction to its content are offered. The following four elements considered important to effective reading instruction are listed: (1) teacher competence, (2) pacing, (3) method, and (4) content (motivation). The manner in…

Described here is a pilot development of a method for analyzing the structural content of a set of teaching materials, underwritten by the Committee for Cooperation on English in Japan and conducted in cooperation with the Fulbright Program in Japan and the English Language Education Department of the Faculty of Education at Hiroshima University.…

This document presents four articles concerning content analysis. The first article reviews content analysis as a research tool for higher education. Content analysis, a research methodology eminently well-suited to legislation prediction, is examined in the second article. The third article, the characterization of American student dissent in…

College administrators were asked to comment on press coverage of disturbances at colleges and universities and to suggest ways to improve coverage. Two samplings of their views took place, one in 1969 and one in 1971. All pertinent replies were content analyzed. The main charges were of improper balance, news distortion, and/or inaccurate…

Forty-one 10th grade biology tests prepared by commercial publishers, test bureaus, and the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study were analyzed using the six major categories of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. Of the 2,689 test items classified, 71.88% were Knowledge, 15.17% Comprehension, 11.49%…

Intended primarily as an aid for secondary teachers of American literature, this book discusses fiction in which the hero is a young person. The techniques of teaching content and style of literature are presented. Twenty-three works of fiction are considered. (DB)

As part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading, this volume reports the results of the study concerned with critical reading--that part of reading behavior which requires analysis and reasoning. Results of the reading exercises are reported for four age levels (9, 13, 17, and young adult, 26-35), four regions of the country…

In response to the increasing social concern for the quality of the environment and its conservation, and the need to ensure that all pupils in their final years of schooling be brought to share that concern, teachers in Hertfordshire, England, have constructed an 'A' level curriculum or syllabus of environmental studies for the sixth form. Based…

Content and task dimensions of science items were studied using factor analytic techniques. These items were developed to measure concept attainment using a completely crossed design with 30 concepts and 12 tasks. Conventional factor analyses were performed, separately for boys and girls, for concept scores and for task scores. Three-mode factor…

One of a series of quinmester programs, this course is designed to introduce the student to significant literature that illustrates the gulf between the vision of a perfect society and the realities of human nature. Course content consists of the characteristics of a Utopian society, a definition of Utopia, attitudes toward Utopia, the relation of…

Content validity is concerned with three components: (1) the job content; (2) the test content, and (3) the strength of the relationship between the two. A content validation study, to be considered adequate and defensible should include at least the following four procedures: (1) A thorough and accurate job analysis (to define the job content);…

Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech, a response to charges brought against the "Nixon fund," was primarily an effort to explain the behavior of Eisenhower's 1952 presidential-campaign staff. The effectiveness of this speech was largely due to Nixon's self-disclosure within the context of the speech's narrative mode. In…

In recent years, increasing concern with newspaper accuracy and credibility has led some people to question whether newspapers should use veiled, non-specific, attributions in news reporting. This study contains a content analysis of a sample of newspapers to determine the frequency and nature of veiled attributions as they are now employed. The…

In an effort to determine the nature, content, and geographic distribution of environmental studies programs for majors and non-majors, colleges and universities of the Southeastern States were surveyed. (JC)