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Swayne, Philip E. – 1975
Designed to assess children's preferences for story settings, the instrument requires children to indicate their preference for a story setting in each of 36 pairs of contrasting pictures, 12 pairs in each of the following categories: (1) fantasy versus realism, (2) past versus contemporary, and (3) geographically remote versus the near-at-hand.…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Forced Choice Technique
Peer reviewedGainer, M. L.; Ashkinazi, L. A. – Russian Education and Society, 1995
Reports on the reading interests of 450 Russian secondary school graduates enrolled in a mathematics and physics-oriented technical school in Moscow. Finds that students' interests changed during two periods in recent Russian history: (1) 1988-1990--the perestroika period; and (2) 1991-1992--the "market" period. (CFR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Individual Development, Mathematics
