Reports on an investigation into the most highly linked pages on United Kingdom university Web sites. Concludes that simple link counts are highly unreliable indicators of the average behavior of scholars, and that the most highly linked-to pages are those that facilitate access to a wide range of information rather than providing specific…

Examines novels in which children or teens in an urban environment, left on their own for a variety of reasons, join together to form a community that explores alternative versions of home and family. Notes urban survival novels encompass a wide variety of genres, and involves dramatic shifts of perspective which challenge protagonists (and…

Reviews the importance of intercoder agreement for content analysis in mass communication research. Describes several indices for calculating this type of reliability (varying in appropriateness, complexity, and apparent prevalence of use). Presents a content analysis of content analyses reported in communication journals to establish how…

Considers how as the demand for African American children's literature grows, those concerned with struggling readers are beginning to ask tough questions about the literature's possible influence on various aspects of reading development. Suggests that researchers should continually scrutinize the specific features contained in these books to…

Discussion of learning technology standards focuses on acceptance and implementation, illustrated by SCORM specifications as applied to courseware development. Highlights include course structure; content hierarchy; multimedia assets; sharable content objects (SCOs); content aggregation; content packaging; categories of metadata; and content…

Investigates the effect of television viewing on perceptions of sex-role stereotypes. Finds partial support for both the high impact image (the "Drench") and the frequent viewing ("Drip, Drip") theories. (RS)

Quantifies sexual, violent, sexually violent, and prosocial behaviors in a sample of R-rated and X-rated videocassettes. Finds the predominant behavior in both X- and XXX-rated videos is sexual. Finds the predominant behavior in R-rated videos was violence followed by prosocial behavior. (RS)

Examines the educational lexicons of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to investigate the influence of educational theories of the Enlightenment on Germany. Expounds on the educational theories of the Enlightenment. (RW)

This article examines two relevant features in the historical development of sexology, the body of knowledge upon which sex education is based: its depoliticization of sexuality and its attempts to ground itself as scientific. Also examined are the sexual politics of sexology, via a content analysis of several college texts. (IAH)

Analyzes 140 pastoral letters issued by the American Catholic bishops before, during, and after Vatican II (1947 through 1981). Suggests that doctrinal rhetoric has a tremendous capacity to endure accelerated social and institutional change, and that the rhetorical impact of Vatican II was quickly institutionalized in the public communications of…

Reviews the terminological, methodological, and pedagogical confusion present in the German textbooks of the past 15 years, and proposes an improved terminology for teaching 4 basic grammatical components: strong verbs, mixed verbs, declensions, and the subjunctive. The new terminology is based on the principle of rational simplicity. (21…

Uses the "line and stanza" method to analyze and compare texts representing different cultural backgrounds and ages. Proposes that the textual characteristics identified by the Formalists as the measure of literature are actually the hallmarks of a cross-cultural human capacity for making deep sense of experience. (FMW)

Conditions under which measurement-driven instruction might produce its expected results are discussed, with reference to test stakes, performance standards, and the nature of content assessment. Under some conditions, instruction driven by measurement may corrupt the measurement process. (SLD)

Reports results from an analysis of news coverage of adult education between February 1 and April 30, 1985. Results indicate that certain facets of adult education achieved greater prominence than the rest, specifically those with which the government was preoccupied. News items about adult education tended to be very brief but quite positive. (CH)

Examines educational life-writing in two leading history-of-education journals. "History of Education Quarterly" pursues objectivity and publishes only principle-case studies and collective biographies, resulting in stale and lifeless texts that meet traditional academic standards. "Historical Studies in Education" accepts both…