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Peer reviewedSommer, Robert; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1988
Reports that variation in textbook prices is not correlated with textbook quality as judged by instructors and that university faculty are less price conscious when selecting textbooks than are community college faculty. States that, if faculty had greater access to price information, textbook prices would decrease. Makes recommendations for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, Professors, Psychology
Peer reviewedWeiten, Wayne – Teaching of Psychology, 1988
Compares professors' ratings of the pedagogical quality of 43 introductory psychology texts with measures of 29 objective features such as manuscript length and number of references. Regression analysis showed that the 29 features predicted substantial portions of the variance in the professors' ratings. States that the comparative data may be…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professors, Psychology, Regression (Statistics)
