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Parker, Barbara – Executive Educator, 1981
A recent survey of some 3,000 administrators across the United States revealed a wide range of textbook selection procedures. (WD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Librarians, National Surveys
Peer reviewedHighfill, Jannett K.; Weber, William V. – Journal of Economic Education, 1994
Asserts that international trade, as compared with international finance or even international economics, is primarily an applied microeconomics field. Discusses decomposition analysis in relation to international trade and tariffs. Reports on an evaluation of the treatment of this topic in eight college-level economics textbooks. (CFR)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Economics, Economics Education, Exports
Peer reviewedHartman, Lawrence A.; Hanna, John W. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1987
Summarizes the findings used in developing a directory of interpretive curricula in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Reports on the numbers of schools offering courses, majors, specializations, and degrees in interpretation, as well as the texts, and the areas of content that are emphasized in the curricula. (TW)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Science, Colleges, Course Content
Graveel, John G.; Fribourg, Henry A. – Journal of Agronomic Education, 1987
Reported is a study designed to determine whether reading grade level (RGL) assessment techniques used for elementary and secondary education textbooks would discriminate among plant and soil science textbooks. The study was to select the RGL indices suited to quantify the readability of these sources, and to identify the factors affecting…
Descriptors: Agronomy, College Science, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
