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Candor, Catherine Ann – 1976
The background of the Kanawha County, language arts textbook controversy is described, and several factors are examined as possible precipitating elements in the controversy. The major actions, reactions, and occurrences in Kanawha County from April 1974 to April 1975 are reported, and various sources are used to document positions taken by…
Descriptors: Censorship, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Weathersby, Dorothy Thompson – 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that have influenced the selection and the production of the literature textbooks for grades 10-12 in the public schools in Tennessee from 1951 to 1971: guidelines set up by the Tennessee State Textbook Commission and by the publishers; the adopted editions of literature textbooks listed in the…
Descriptors: Censorship, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Literature
Grissom, Pauline Viola West – 1975
The two readers used in this study were both editions of the Ginn Basal Reading Series. Illustrations in the older Revised Editions depicted no black characters. The newer 100 Editions introduce black characters in the illustrations. The research tested children's preferences for these basal readers by sex, grade level, achievement levels within…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Black Students, Books, Doctoral Dissertations
Ochola, Joel Aduma – 1983
This study was designed to find out how far suggested textbooks have been adopted in teaching a new chemistry syllabus in Kenya and if the chemistry books now being used in schools to teach the new syllabus involve activity and encourage the process of scientific inquiry. The new syllabus is a merger between the traditional separate chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Inquiry
Rose, Phillip Allen – 1976
The purpose of this study was to determine the compatibility of the reading level of students with the required power-mechanics textbooks used by senior industrial arts majors in the California State University and Colleges System. The data for this study were obtained from responses to the Schrammel-Gray High School and College Reading Test…
Descriptors: College Seniors, College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education
Horn, Joan M. – 1978
Two readability formulas were applied to two math and two reading series textbooks at the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade levels to see whether the publishers' suggested reading levels were accurate. Five samples were taken from each text and compared to the publishers' suggested usage according to grade level. Results showed that although formulas…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Intermediate Grades, Mathematics Instruction
Download full textGrippando, Gloria M. – 1975
An extensive review of the literature and a survey of nursing faculties revealed the incompleteness and obsolescence of current texts to meet the needs of the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) course in current trends. It became evident while researching course content materials for the current trends course that the personal and vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Allied Health Occupations Education, Articulation (Education)
