A three-part review process is proposed as an aid to textbook selection for college courses. After an introductory discussion of the importance of developing standards and criteria for selecting course texts, the three-phase process is presented. The initial phase involves the establishment of departmental criteria for textbooks, which may be…

Intended to promote the effective use of captioned media in the education of hearing impaired students, the manual contains theoretical and historical background information about captioning, illuminates major issues in the field of captioning (e.g., edited versus verbatim captioning and the need to teach caption-reading skills), and offers…

This document presents guidelines for handling disruptive behavior in the Schenectady County Public Library (New York). Specific responses are listed for dealing with questions about library selection policy and sudden patron illness or injury. Also listed are responses to problem situations involving angry or irate patrons, assault or physically…

This presentation suggests methods for selecting teachers and students for high school advanced placement courses, presenting the course material, and preparing students for examinations. It also discusses some materials that can be used in an advanced placement English course and considers some problems of curriculum revision that can arise when…

The relative worth of any evaluation instrument depends on user needs and the material being evaluated. Potential users of a good computer assisted instruction (CAI) instrument include purchasers, authors, reviewers, and publishers of CAI materials. Although each user has unique needs, a good instrument will serve both to educate and discriminate,…

To explore in-service elementary teachers' selection of children's literature and the factors influencing that selection, a study surveyed 55 public and independent elementary teachers (K-7) from urban, suburban, and rural settings in Massachusetts, Oregon, and Wisconsin about their recent experiences in selecting children's books for use in their…

Fiske and her colleagues have argued that impression formation begins with the perceiver's attempt to match a new target person's personal attributes to those that characterize a familiar social category in memory. Results of a study testing this model found general support for it, but results for subjects who saw partial matches (the target was…

A case study explored the ways in which a primary grade teacher selected instructional materials. The teacher had nearly 25 years of experience in the field. Data were gathered through 10 weekly interviews of about a half hour each, during which videotapes of the teacher's classroom practices were reviewed. Areas covered under the study included:…

This study looks briefly at work done in the field of teacher selection. It then examines the interviewing arrangements at Balls Park College (Australia) in 1970-71, when candidates were being selected for the teacher training course which began in October 1971. An attempt is made to discern relationships existing among: (1) the data available to…

To investigate the effects of task difficulty level and control over the level of difficulty on children's intrinsic motivation to play, attempts and successes were recorded as 80 four-year-old children played a bean bag game. The object of the game was to hit a target from one of five distances. Each of the distances constituted a different level…

This computer-generated catalog presents the Manitoba Department of Education's 16mm film holdings found in its bookable and its self-serve collections. Each of the 3,921 film titles in the Department of Education Library's film collection is indexed by title, series, subject, curriculum heading, author, and producer, as well as by key word. These…

Intended for educators, librarians, and storytellers, this bibliography provides access to myriad materials on the relationship between folk literature and children. Extending from 1693 through 1979, the bibliography is confined to materials dealing with children and folk literature; materials on storytelling techniques or the nonliterary elements…

This guidebook is intended to provide introductory knowledge to adult education teachers and administrators who are interested in the purchase and use of microcomputers. Although the emphasis is on adult basic education, most information is applicable to adult secondary settings. Section 1 is a brief history of computer development. Section 2, on…

Suggestions are offered regarding the use and selection of software with LD (learning disabled) students. The scarcity of appropriate software for the population is pointed out and a hybrid selection scale based upon several existing scales is described. It is noted that the major reason for rejecting software is the high readability skill…

When preschool children were given a choice of activities, they spent significantly more time working with puzzles/brissle blocks than they did working at a computer. Sex and age differences were not statistically significant. Wide individual differences in the "holding power" of both the computer and puzzles/brissle blocks were found.…