Discusses that paper on the role and responsibility of school counselors to career education programs (CE 510 317). Suggests that the paper's ideas are but a first step. Federal and state leaders must commit time, priority and resources to this program. (JOW)

Reflects on the American Personnel and Guidance Association School Counselor and Career Education Project. Discusses counselor role, preparation and commitment. (JOW)

The present study compared six methods, two of which utilize the content structure of items, to estimate total-test scores using 450 students and 60 items of the 110-item Stanford Mental Arithmetic Test. Three methods yielded fairly good estimates of the total-test score. (Author/RL)

Reviews the content and intent of the Lifelong Learning Act and criticizes the use of "lifelong learning" as a synonym for "adult and continuing education," contending that lifelong learning should begin in the earliest years. Includes opinions of eight other educators on the act's provisions and impact. (MF)

Provides an overview of the liturature on Chaplin and the character he portrayed--Charlot, "the little fellow,"--throughout the world. (JMF)

Discusses the development of characters in daytime serials in terms of love, marriage, and personal happiness. Considers how these developments are designed to fit middle-class values. (JMF)

Content analyses of a Massachusetts and an Oregon daily newspaper revealed that the newspapers covered causes of death in very similar ways, overreporting violent, often catastrophic causes of death and underreporting diseases. These biases in coverage corresponded closely to people's judgments of causes of death, as determined in a previous…

Reports that the coverage of women's sports in "Sports Illustrated" did not increase from 1956 to 1976, although women's active participation in sports did. (GT)

Investigates the structure and interrelationships of the psychological literature as a preparatory step for studies of psychological research activity. Techniques of bibliographic citation analysis are used to construct influence measures for individual journals and for the subfields of psychology into which they have been classified. (FM)

Points to characteristics that differentiate the college press from commercial media, mentions trends in past research on college publications, and discusses three areas in which there is a need for further research: readership, reader preference, and content trends. (GT)

Describes the findings of a content analysis of 64 picture books on play themes for elementary school children. The books were analyzed to determine who was playing (sex of child or adult; ethnic group membership) and why (play for fun, for social benefits, or for self-enhancement). (SS)

Reports that 16 percent of 1,600 selections from six basal reading series contained one or more old people, that six percent presented an elderly person in a central role, that women and minority groups were inadequately represented, that the portrayal of old people was basically positive, and that considerable stereotyping existed in…

Discusses the need for formative evaluation in radio programing, and outlines 11 approaches to radio research. (CMV)

Although competency-based teacher education (CBTE) materials are often instrumental in teacher training and improvement, the low availability of the materials, their complexity, and lack of evaluation data can prove serious impediments to widespread use of CBTE. (LH)

Presents the findings of an analysis of content trends, authorship, citations, and titles of articles in the "Journal of Reading" in the first twenty years of its publication. (DD)