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Download full textMcConnell, Jane S. – 1995
Because the Hutchins Commission's report, "A Free and Responsible Press," has served as a benchmark concerning social responsibility of the press, a study compared its ideas about press responsibility and the role of journalism with those in journalism textbooks. Twelve period textbooks were content analyzed in detail as were several…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Educational History, Ethics, Higher Education
Britton, Bruce K.; And Others – 1996
A series of four studies tested two methods of revising instructional text to improve students' learning from it. In one method, the revisions untangled the "cognitive knots" in the text; in the second method, the revisions highlighted the "point" of the text. Subjects for the various studies were 40 students in an intact high…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
Linek, Wayne M.; Harkins, Donna M. – 1997
A pilot study examined to what degree answers that students supply on basal reader workbook pages are integrated with understanding the words in the story or with understanding the story itself. The sample consisted of 27 workbook pages from 5 fourth-grade basal reading programs with a 1989 copyright date. Two simple content analyses were applied…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Hess, Jon; Pearson, Judy C. – 1991
A study investigated the principles included in basic public speaking texts and the relative importance given to each principle. Content analysis was used to examine 12 of the most popular introductory-level college public speaking textbooks. The unit of analysis was selected, categories were constructed, and the data were coded and weighted.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Public Speaking
Berens, Eileen; Nance, Teresa A. – 1992
A two-stage study was designed to offer a comprehensive analysis of current basic public speaking textbooks. The first stage involved a comprehensive classification, enumeration, and comparison of the substance of six textbooks identified by publishers as leading competitors on the public speaking market. Results from the first stage formed the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
O'Hear, Michael F.; And Others – 1992
A study examined the relation between formula ratings and student perception of both readability and interest in developmental reading/study skills and intermediate composition texts. Subjects, 200 composition students and 96 study skills students, responded to the statements "this text was easy to read" and "the text chapters were…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interest Inventories, Readability, Readability Formulas
Killam, Rosemary; And Others – 1987
The task of choosing the right text(s) for an undergraduate music theory program is difficult, at best. Sixty-seven U.S. institutions of higher learning offering graduate degrees in music theory were surveyed to determine what undergraduate textbooks were used, how long they have been used, and how satisfied the schools were with the texts. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Music, Music Education
Ljung, Magnus – 1991
The work reported in this paper is an offshoot of a project started in early 1986 and designed to produce a comparison between the vocabulary in the TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) texts and the vocabulary found in contemporary non-technical English writing. This study investigated the unique words and differences in frequency…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Comparative Analysis, English, Foreign Countries
Shapiro, Sheila – 1983
To determine whether the suggested poetry teaching procedures found in the teacher manuals of sixth-grade basal readers reflect the pedagogical procedures suggested by expert opinion and research, an indepth analysis was made of a total of 106 poetry lessons in eight teacher manuals. The poetry lessons were analyzed for the purposes of determining…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Educational Objectives, Grade 6
Gagnon, Paul – 1989
The first purpose of a high school course in U.S. history must be to help students understand the essence of democracy and those events, institutions, and forces that have either promoted or obstructed it. This review examines five textbooks and analyzes how useful they are in aiding that process, and how they might be made more helpful. The five…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, History Instruction, History Textbooks, Secondary Education
Cousin, Patricia Tefft – 1989
Research has indicated that current information about reading and the effective teaching of reading has not yet made much impact on content area textbooks. As a result, there is much room for improvement in how textbooks are written. Recent research has yielded a great deal of information about what makes a text more understandable and supportive…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Graybeal, Sheila S.; Stodolsky, Susan S. – 1986
This study examines in detail a sample of widely used teacher guides in order to describe a picture of instruction as it is represented in these guides and to compare it with classroom practices. Mathematics and social studies were selected as the subject areas because of observed differences in classroom practices. Six questions guided the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Ogren, Sandra L. – 1985
The purpose of this study was to examine problems of evaluating sex bias in textbooks and to analyze the presence of sex bias in high school American history textbooks. Seven editions of "Rise of the American Nation" (Harcourt, Brace & World) were analyzed to determine if the 1982 edition indicated better sex equity than earlier…
Descriptors: Females, History Instruction, History Textbooks, Secondary Education
Brozo, William G.; Johns, Jerry L. – 1986
Content and critical analyses of 40 speed reading books were undertaken to determine to what extent discussion and teaching reflected current research. Particular attention was given to the information provided on eye movements, span of recognition, and the upper rates of speed attainable through practice. Content analysis revealed the following:…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Reading Rate
Seminoff, Nancy Wiseman – 1981
Given the important role written questions have as a teaching strategy and their apparent use in textbooks, this study examined the written questions posed in representative American history textbooks intended for students at the seventh and eighth grade levels. Ten textbooks were randomly selected from a larger group of texts. Three chapters in…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Inquiry, Junior High Schools, Questioning Techniques
