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Content Analysis of 47 College Learning Skills Textbooks.
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Heinrichs, Audrey S.; LaBranche, Susan P. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1986
Describes criteria used for selecting learning/study skills textbooks for college freshmen in a required developmental reading course. Contains a checklist used to analyze 47 major textbooks. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Course Content, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
The Role of Textbooks in Teachers' Interactive Decision Making.
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Alvermann, Donna E. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Examines teachers' decisions to make adjustments in their preplanned discussion routines to better facilitate students' comprehension of previously assigned content area materials in terms of how texts figured into those decisions. (FL)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Content Area Reading, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Acquisition of Hierarchically Organized Knowledge and Prediction of Events in World History.
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Bean, Thomas W.; And Others – Reading Research and Instruction, 1987
Indicates that textbook explication alone of causes of events is insufficient for acquisition and use of hierarchically organized knowledge; students must be taught how to construct text-based information into hierarchically structured form and use it for making predictions. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, History Instruction