Reviewed are 14 recent texts, kits, supplements, and professional references for values education in the secondary grades. A special subsection evaluates four titles for advanced secondary students on human sexuality. (SJL)

Reviewed are 35 recent texts, instructional kits, supplements, and professional references for consumer education. All but three are intended for the secondary grades. (SJL)

Reviewed are eight recent instructional kits, supplementary texts, and professional references for K-8 library and study skills instruction. (SJL)

Discusses how the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded curricula stack up against the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)'s "Principles and Standards". Identifies distinctive features of the five textbook series and includes an example that shows some of these features for each series. (KHR)

This review of instructional materials currently used in secondary school remedial reading programs provides rating sheets for magazines, commercially published reading programs, paperback library books, specific skill sets, multimedia materials, workbooks, supplementary materials, and book sets. Each rating sheet analyzes the material's…

Described here is a pilot development of a method for analyzing the structural content of a set of teaching materials, underwritten by the Committee for Cooperation on English in Japan and conducted in cooperation with the Fulbright Program in Japan and the English Language Education Department of the Faculty of Education at Hiroshima University.…

A user-centered educational product evaluation model for the prepublication and postpublication assessment of materials designed for medical and dental education is presented. The model has four components: the author, user, evaluator, and publisher. It is dynamic, reactive, and interactive, with feedback from each component providing input to…

A method of analyzing the content of biology/curricula, courses, and texts on the basis of the relative emphasis on different levels of biological organization, is discussed. It is suggested that this method may have led to unwarranted contrasts between traditional and modern curricula. A simple modification is proposed. (Author/BB)

Proposes four criteria for evaluating college readers (anthologies), highlighting features that might foster those proficiencies of active reading discussed by Bleich, Rosenblatt, Holland, Dillon, Fish, and other prominent theorists. Applies those four criteria to four best-selling college anthologies. (HTH)

Lists ten common flaws found in reading workbooks, kits, and other materials and provides examples of each drawn from specific commercially-prepared materials. (TO)

Cooperation between school and producer is necessary for ensuring learner verified materials. A related article is EA 503 987. (Author/MF)

Reviews 12 recent texts, supplements, kits and professional references for composition instruction at various grade levels from kindergarten to eighth grade. (SJL)

Seven texts and multimedia kits for inservice training in mainstreaming are described and evaluated. (SJL)

Analyzes how two electromagnetism textbooks approach the concept of electric field. Uses historical evolution of the field representation. Indicates that one textbook mixes up the historical and pedagogical reasons for the introduction of the concept of field while the other one presents a sketch that might lead students to understand the field…