Reported is a study of questioning techniques used in inquiry training. Particular attention was focused on Suchman's method for teaching scientific inquiry and on his claim to confer on elementary school students some knowledge of, or competence in, inquiry. Suchman's eleven questioning categories were examined to establish the criteria for each.…

Techniques were developed for designing instruction for discipline-based curriculum areas. The approach integrated aspects of previous work in behavioral objectives, the structure of knowledge, learning hierarchies, and information-processing psychology and made explicit their relations to instructional design. Three kinds of analysis were…

Two purposes prompted this study: to determine the growth and development of children's books about Mexico and Mexican-Americans in terms of content, illustrations, and format, and to determine whether there has been a change in the image of Mexico that is portrayed in these books. A total of 661 children's books were examined to determine the…

This paper identifies and describes three distinct variables on which prose passages can differ, from a linguistic point of view. Each of these variables relates to the way in which the content of prose is organized to convey meaning to the reader. The first variable is the position of information in a structure representing a passage's…

Four eighth grade literature anthologies ("Focus,""Counterpoint,""Perception," and "Adventures for Readers") were analyzed to determine what roles women played in adolescent literature anthologies. Out of the 171 selections analyzed, only 24 had female authors. Selections which contained no female characters, depicted women in a negative view, or…

Developing a rationale for the high school underground press is the objective of this study. To accomplish this, principals, underground editors, and student editors were asked to rate six concepts and to complete an attitudes and beliefs scale, and thirteen high school underground newspapers and five major court decisions were examined using…

This volume is intended to help teachers recognize the criteria for evaluating books and to assist the learners in their classrooms in developing skills. The book is divided into three sections. The first presents an overview of literary criticism with chapters entitled "Critic, Fact, Fiction" and "The Writer and His Craft." The second section…

In an earlier pilot study of the narrative sections of Navy performance evaluations for senior enlisted personnel in pay grade E-7, it was determined by content analytic techniques that it is possible to differentiate between the performance of typical and superlative chief petty officers based on the narrative content of Evaluation Reports. A…

The purpose of the study described in this book was to determine the content parameter of television commercials addressed to children. A total of 236 commercials were collected from advertising agencies representing cereals, candy, drinks, foods for meals, restaurants, cookies, miscellaneous, cakes, ice cream, vitamins, and crunchy snacks. Each…

As part of the Inservice Teacher Education (ISTE) Concepts Study, more than 2,000 books, periodicals, and unpublished papers written after 1957 were consulted and reviewed. The purpose of the review was the identification of the data needs and major issues in inservice education. The literature was identified, read, and categorized; and…

Examples of dialogues are examined to determine whether they are useful in teaching English as a second language. The use of dialogues is considered to be a satisfactory method only if it is combined with use of narrative texts. A class lesson emphasizing dialogue and narrative text is described. (IFS/MS)

Concludes that there is a dearth of picture books containing female characters. (RB)

Guidelines for constructing resumes are developed based on an analysis of the responses of 205 personnel managers to a questionnaire eliciting their opinions regarding various aspects of resume preparation. (Author)

Defines pornography as sexually explicit material and investigates several aspects of "adult only" paperback fiction which is easily accessible to the general American public. (MH)