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Peer reviewedSpring, Karen Strom – Journal of Reading, 1975
Findings stress the importance of the teacher's role in influencing learning in the community college. (RB)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Readability, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulty
Walmsley, John B. – Elementary English, 1974
The national criteria found in many textbooks were shown to be ineffective in teaching subject and verb concepts. (JH)
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Education, Evaluation Methods, Grammar
Download full textMarzano, Robert J.; Marzano, Jana S. – 1989
A study was conducted to answer the question, "What are the basic words in a list of words kindergarten through sixth grade students will frequently encounter in their reading?" The study was limited to the words the students would encounter in their textbooks (including basals). A corpus of 7,230 words was then analyzed by two raters to…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education, Reading Research, Reading Strategies
Ingels, Steven J.; O'Brien, Mary Utne – 1985
This evaluation of the impact of the text, "Our Economy: How It Works," on student attitudes and values reports the findings of a study of ninth grade students in three cities: Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Durango, Colorado; and Minneapolis, Minnesota conducted over portions of the 1984-85 school year. Economics Values Inventory (EVI), the design for the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Economics Education, Educational Research
Stevenson, James A. – 1988
The Fry Readability Formula was employed to determine the reading grade levels of the eight most popular college U.S. history survey textbooks and the ten most popular Western civilization textbooks. It was discovered that the Fry readability technique could not produce consistently close findings on any single college history textbook. Indeed,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, History Textbooks, Readability, Readability Formulas
Bearden, Phernando T. – 1986
In many classrooms, the textbook becomes the main source used to determine objectives, procedures, opinions, questions, thoughts, and other items used in teaching U.S. history. This study was done to determine how the Reconstruction Era was presented in a selected group of junior high school U.S. history textbooks. The books were classified…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Course Content, Junior High Schools, Reconstruction Era
Cline, Carolyn; Motes, Susan – 1982
A 1981 survey of public relations teachers revealed two primary ethical concerns of their students: relationships with employers or clients and deliberate distortion of information. A study analyzed nine textbooks and three books of selected readings to determine the extent to which they exposed students to the concept of the public relations…
Descriptors: Credibility, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Higher Education
Gruner, Charles R. – 1982
A study was conducted to determine the effects of mildly self-disparaging humor on audiences' perceptions when it is used by speakers perceived to be of differing credibility (ethos) levels. Responses by 27 students who were potential subjects of the experiment were used to construct a credibility scale. The most credible speaker, a university…
Descriptors: Audiences, Communication Research, Credibility, Higher Education
Panchyshyn, Robert; Enright, Brian – 1981
This research project was initiated to examine the vocabulary load contained in word problems appearing in basal mathematics textbooks through a study of word frequency. Five leading basal mathematics series were used. Every word, phrase or sentence that resulted in computation was included. A total of 476,674 words were identified. Information…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematical Vocabulary, Mathematics Education
Thompson, Patricia J. – 1982
This paper presents a model and conceptual framework for textbook research. The model will help scholars from a variety of disciplines approach textbook research from a common theoretical grounding and later compare and synthesize their findings using agreed-upon categories and a shared vocabulary. The author first describes two rudimentary models…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Bruce, Bertram – 1981
Presenting an overview of the theoretical perspective underlying work on text analysis in progress at the Center for the Study of Reading (Champaign-Urbana, Illinois), this report emphasizes the work that group has undertaken on stories for children in grades one through five. The report discusses three factors, drawn from a theoretical model,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Readability
MCCULLOUGH, CONSTANCE M. – 1965
A READING PROJECT WAS INITIATED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION IN INDIA TO (1) PRODUCE TEXTBOOKS AND WORKBOOKS, FIELD TEST THE BOOKS, AND TRAIN TEACHERS TO USE THEM, (2) PRODUCE TEACHERS MANUALS, (3) CONSTRUCT FIRST-GRADE TESTS, (4) CONSTRUCT ACHIEVEMENT TESTS, AND (5) PRODUCE THESE BOOKS IN HINDI. THE ENSUING GUIDE FOR THOSE WHO WRITE AND…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Guidelines, Hindi, Reading Materials
PERRONE, VITO – 1965
A CONTENT ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF 153 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOKS DEALING WITH LATIN AMERICA. THE ANALYSES INCLUDED THE FORMULATION OF CATEGORIES FOR INTENSIVE STUDY AND TESTING. THE CATEGORIES WERE (1) GEOGRAPHY, (2) THE PEOPLE, (3) THE COLONIAL PERIOD AND THE REVOLUTIONS, (4) POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, (5) UNITED STATES…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Social Studies
Gentry, Larry A. – 1980
The purpose of this study was to focus on features of spelling textbook instruction that were not included in an earlier investigation. This paper presents data gathered from further analysis of the same seven commercial series used in the previous assessment and discusses the scope and sequence of major instructional categories. The following…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Consonants, Content Analysis, Educational Research
Ball, Edward H. – 1979
A study to check on the efficacy of the teaching methods used in "Language Basics Plus," a basal elementary language arts program published by Harper and Row, involved a pretest, treatment, and mastery test procedure used with more then 3,000 elementary students. Results of the prepublication learner verification study indicated that the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
