Table of Contents

ARTICLES The Humanities and Interrater Reliability: A Response to R. Stephen RiCharde Arend Flick Response to Arend Flick R. Stephen RiCharde Exploratory Evidence of Accounting Majors' Motivation to Learn Alexander L. Gabbin Motivating Freshman Students in a Business Management Course via Portfolios: Practice from a Greek Public University Antigoni Papadimitriou COLUMN Assessment Measures Gary R. Pike, Judith A. Ouimet From the States Peter T. Ewell     

The schools of the Royal Academy

The Evolution of Educational Thought (Lectures on the Formation and Development of Secondary Education in France). By Emile Durkheim. Translated by Peter Collins. Pp. 354. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. £7.50.

Born Curious: New Perspectives in Educational Theory. By R. A. Hodgkin. Pp. vii, 131. London: John Wiley and Sons, 1976. £5.50.

Equalities and Inequalities in Education. Edited by P. R. Cox, H. B. Miles and J. Peel. London: Academic Press, 1975. Pp. xx, 144. £4.50. ISBN 0–12–194240–6.

Civic Education in Ten Countries. By J. V. Torney, A. N. Oppenheim, R. F. Farnen. Stockholm: Almqvist &; Wiksell; London: John Wiley, 1975.

Problems in Primary Education. By R. F. Dearden. Pp. 132. London, Henley and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976. £3.00.

Educational Research in Classrooms and Schools. By Louis Cohen. Pp. xvi, 426. London: Harper and Row, 1976. £8.50.

The Dissemination of Curriculum Development. By Jean Rudduck and Peter Kelly. Pp. 111. Windsor: NFER Publishing Company, 1976.

Developments in Design Education. By John Eggleston. Pp. x+138. London: Open Books, 1976. £1.75.

Handbook of Environmental Education. Edited by R. N. Saveland for the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Morges, Switzerland. Pp. 267. London: John Wiley and Son, 1976. £7.50.     

Problem page

Books Reviewed in this Articles: The Statistician at Work: A Glimpse of a Profession in Action Centre for Statistical Education, University of Sheffield, 1987. Devised by Toby Lewis Statistical Investigations in the Secondary School, Open University. Understanding Data By P. Sprenf The Teaching of Practical Statistics By C. W Anderson and R. M. Loynes. Statistics Explained: Basic Concepts and Met hods, By R. Kapadia and G. Anderson.     

Review: Approaches to educational psychology‐some recent textbooks

Blair, G. M., Jones, R. S., and Simpson, R. H., Educational Psychology (4^th Ed.). New York: Macmillan, 1975. 624 pages. $8.95

Craig, R. C., Mehrens, W. H., and Clarizio, H. F., Contemporary Educational Psychology: Concepts, Issues, Applications. New York: Wiley, 1975. 558 pages. $9.95

Gage, N. L., and Berliner, D. C., Educational Psychology. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1975. 869 pages. $9.95

Lefrancois, G., Psychology for Teaching (2nd Ed.). Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth, 1975. 372 pages. $7.95

Packard, R. G., Psychology of Learning and Instruction. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1975. 480 pages. $9.95

Smith, M. D., Educational Psychology and its Classroom Applications. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1975. 574 pages. $9.95     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Gillham, Bruce (Ed.) Reading Through the Curriculum Betty, Charles Discovering Together (Series). Titles: Christmas Chapman, L. John. Reading Development and Cohesion. Gregson, D. and Thcwlis, S. Comprehension and Research Skills: an index of classroom resources. Miles, T. R. Dyslexia, The Pattern of Difficulties. Miles, T. R. & Miles, E. Helpfor Dyslexic Children. Moore, Leonard. My Favourite Nature Encyclopedia. Haas, W. (Ed.) Standard Languages, Spoken and Written. Moyle, Donald and Sykes, Eileen. Games for Language and Reading Development.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: LAYTON, J.R. (1979) The Psychology of Learning to Read. BERNIER, C.L. and YERKEY, A.N. (1979) Cogent Communication: Overcoming Reading Overload. HARRISON, C. (1980) Readability in the Classroom. MILLS, R.W. (1980) Classroom Observation of Primary School Children. OXENHAM, J. (1980) Literacy: Writing, Reading and Social Organisation. RUTHROF, H. (1981) The Reader's Construction of Narrative.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: AINCOW, M. and TWEDDLE, D. (1984) Early Learning Skills Analysis. ANDERSON, R.C., OSBORN, J. and TIERNEY, R.J. (eds)(1984) Learning to Read in American Schools: Basal Readers and Content Texts. TUNMER, W.E., PRAIT, c. and HERRIMAN, M.L. (eds) (1984) Metalinguisfic Awareness in Children. Theory, Research, and Implications. DOWNING, J. and VALTIN, R. (eds) (1984) Language Awareness and Learning to Read. COCHRAN-SMITH, M. (1984) The Making of a Reader. GOELMAN, H., OBERG, A. and SMITH, F. (1984) Awakening to Literacy. KENNEDY, A. (1984) The Psychology of Reading. VAN DIJK, T.A. and KINTSCH, W. (1983) Strategies of Discourse Comprehension. EGOFF, SHEILA A. (1981) Thursday's Child. FLOOD, J. (1984) Understanding Reading Comprehension: Cognition, Language, and the Structure of Prose. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association. ISBN 0-87207-7365. PETERS, M. (1984) Spelling: Caught or Taught? A New Look. GRONER, R., MENZ, c., FISHER, D.F. and MONTY, R.A. (eds) (1983) Eye Movements and Psychological Processes: international views. RAYNER, K. (ed.) (1983) Eye Movements in Reading: perceptual and language processes. HENDERSON, L. (1984) Orthographies and Reading. WALLER, T. GARY and MACKINNON, G.E. (eds) (1979) Reading Research Advances in Theory and Practice, Volume 1. MACMNNON, G.E. and WALLER, T. GARY. (eds) (1981) Reading Research Advances in Theory and Practice, Volume 2. MACMNNON, G.E. and WALLER, T. GARY (eds) (1981) Reading Research Advances in Theory and Practice, Volume 3 MACKINNON, G.E. and WALLER, T. GARY (eds) (1985) Reading Research Advances in Theory and Practice, Volume 4.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: GORMAN, T.P., PURVES, A.C. DEGENHART, R.E. (eds.) (1988) The IEA Study of Written Composition I: The International Tasks and Scoring Scales. International Studies in Educational Achievement, Volume 5. SCHOLES, R. (1989) Protocols of Reading. GILBERT, P. (1989) Writing, Schooling, and Deconstruction: From Voice to Text in the Classroom. GARTON, A. PRATT, c.(1989) Learning to be Literate: the development of spoken and written language. BAKER, CAROLYN D. FREEBODY, PETER (1989) Children's First School Books. KITAO, S.K. (1989) Reading, Schema Theory and Second Language Learners.     

Freedom of Speech: Its Exercise and Its Interpretation

Common Sense and the Curriculum. By R. Barrow. Pp. 169. London: Allen and Unwin, 1976. £5.25 hardback (£2.50 paperback).

Curriculum: An Introduction. By David Jenkins and M. D. Shipman. Pp. ix, 133. London: Open Books, 1976. £1.25.

Designing the Curriculum. By Hugh Sockett. Pp. ix, 133. London: Open Books, 1976. £1.25.

Changing the Curriculum. By Barry MacDonald and R. Walker. Pp. x, 134. London: Open Books, 1976. £1.25.

Curriculum Evaluation. By David Hamilton. Pp. viii, 136. London: Open Books, 1976. £1.25.

Knowledge and Schooling. By Richard Pring. Pp. viii, 134. London: Open Books, 1976. £1.25.

Rational Curriculum Planning: Four Case Studies. Edited by Jack Walton, John Welton. Pp. 172. London: Ward Lock Educational, 1976. £2.75.

Developments in Mathematics Teaching. By F. R. Watson. Pp. ix+142. London: Open Books, 1976. £1.75.

On the Meaning of The University. Ed. Sterling M. McMurrin. Pp. 123. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Press, 1976. $8.

Education in the West of England 1066–1548: Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire. By Nicholas Orme. Pp. xiii, 239. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1976. £7.50.

The Scottish Sixth. By A. Mcpherson and G. Neave. Pp. 170. Windsor, Berks: N.F.E.R. Publishing Company, 1976.

Myth and Literature. By William Righter. Pp. 132. London and Boston: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1975, £3.50.

Daydreaming and Fantasy. By Jerome L. Singer. Pp. 281. London: George Allen &; Unwin Ltd., 1976. £4.50.

The Creative Vision: A Longitudinal Study of Problem Finding in Art. By J. W. Getzels and M. Csikszentmihalyi. Pp. 293. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1976. £14.30.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: UPWARD, c. (1992) Cut Spelling: a handbook to the simplification of written English by omission of redundant letters. CHALL, J., JACOBS, v. and BALDWIN, L. (1990) The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind. LITTLEFAIR, A. (1990) Reading All Types of Writing. ROBECK, M.C. and WALLACE, R.R. (1990) The Psychology of Reading: An Interdisciplinary Approach. BALOTA, D.A., FLORES D'ARCAIS, G.B., and RAYNER, K. (eds) (1990) Comprehension Processes in Reading. SMITH, J., and ALCOCK, A. (1990) Revisiting Literacy: Helping Readers and Writers. CAIRNEY, T.H. (1990) Teaching Reading Comprehension.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Wilensky, R. (1980) Understanding Goal-Based Stories. Weiss, Jacques (Ed.) (1980) A la Recherche d'une Pkdagogie de la Lecture. Coltheart, M., Patterson, K. and Marshall, J.C. (Ed.) (1980) Deep Dyslexia. Edwards, P. and Nichols, R. (1980) Edwards Reading Test: Reading Selections, Manual of Directions and Pupil's Record Booklet. Fish, Stanley (1980) Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Hulme, C. (1981) Reading Retardation and Multi-sensory Teaching. Kavanagh, J.F. and Venezky, R.L. (Ed.) (1980) Orthography, Reading and Dyslexia. Quin, V. and MacAuslan, A. (1981) Reading and Spelling Difficulties: A Medical Approach. Southgate, V., Arnold, H. and Johnson, S. (1981) Extending Beginning Reading.     

Notes and News

Building a Philosophy of Education. By Harry S. Broudy. Pp. ix, 456. New York: Prentice‐Hall Inc., 1954. $3.00.

Education and the Modern Mind. By W. R. Niblett. Pp. 155. London : Faber and Faber, 1954. 8s. 6d.

Beyond Neutrality: Five Essays on the Purpose of Education. By M. V. C. Jeffreys. Pp. 60. London: Pitman, 1955. 8s. 6d.

The Development of Personality. By C. G. Jung. Pp. 8+235. London : Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1954. 25s.

The Doctrines of the Great Educators. By Robert R. Rusk. London: Macmillan (2nd edn.) 1954. 10s. 6d.

Comprehensive Schools To‐day. By Robin Pedley and others. Pp. 56. London : Councils and Education Press, N.D. [1955]. 3s. 6d.

Educational Review [Journal of the Institute of Education, University of Birmingham]. Editor (1948–50), Prof. F. J. Schonell; (1950‐date), Prof. E. A. Peel. Pp. 80 approx. 1948. Thrice yearly. 5s.

A History of the Working Men's College, 1854–1954. By J. F. C. Harrison. Pp. 216. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1954. 16s.

Adult Education towards Social and Political Responsibility. Pp. 144. Hamburg: U.N.E.S.C.O. Institute for Education, 1954. 3s. 6d.

Tutors and their Training. By W. E. Sty1er and R. D. Waller. Pp. 31. Universities’ Council for Adult Education, cyclostyled.

Anglo‐German exchange

Aims, Organisation &; Methods in English and German Education. Edited by J. R. Hands. Pp. 123, cyclostyled. Durham University, 1954. (No price.)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Turner, Martin, Psychological Assessment of Dyslexia. Jones, R., Emerging Patterns of Literacy: A multidisciplinary perspective. Moustafa, M., Beyond Traditional Phonics Reading Discoveries and Reading Instruction Dombey, Henrietta and Moustafa, Margaret (eds), W(hole) to part phonics: How children learn to read and spell.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: READ, GAVIN (1994) Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia): A handbook for study and practice. EDWARDS, JANICE (1994) The Scars of Dyslexia. HATCHER, P. J. (1994) Sound Linkage. MILES, T.R. (1993) Dyslexia: The Pattern of Difficulties. COOKE, A. (1993) Tackling Dyslexia: The Bangor Way. WILLOWS, D., KRUK, R.S. and CORCOS, E. (Eds.) (1993) Visual Processes in Reading and Reading Disabilities. GOODWYN, A. (ed.) (1995) English and Ability. HULME, CHARLES, and SNOWLING, MARGARET (eds) (1994) Reading Development and Dyslexia. ELLEY, WARWICK B. (ed.) (1994) The IEA Study of Reading Literacy: CHAUDRON, MARTINE and DE SINGLY, FRANCOIS (eds) (1993) Zdentitk, Lecture, Ecriture.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Carver, R.P. (1981) Reading Comprehension and Reading Theory. Crowder, R.G. (1982) The Psychology of Reading: an Introduction. Downing, J. & Leong, C.K. (1981) Psychology of Reading. Henderson, L. (1982) Orthography and Word Recognition in Reading. Kolers, P.A., Wrolstad, M. & Bouma, H. (Ed.) (1979) Processing of Visible Language 1. Kolers, P.A., Wrolstad, M. & Bouma, H. (Ed.) (1980) Processing of visible Language 2. Lesgold, A.M. & Perfetti, C.A. (Ed.) (1981) Interactive Processes in Reading. Mitchell, D.C. (1982) The Process of Reading: a Cognitive Analysis of Fluent Reading and Learning to Read. Ewing, J. and Johnstone, M. (1981) Attitudes to Reading: Measurement and Classification within a Curricular Structure. Heather, P. (1981) Young People's Reading: a study of the leisure reading of 13-15 year olds. Clay, Marie M. (1982) Observing Young Readers: Selected Papers. Ferreiro, Emilia and Teberosky, Ana (1982/3) Literacy Before Schooling. Spender, L. (1983) Intruders on the Rights of Men: Women's Unpublished Heritage. Sheridan, E. Marcia (Ed.) (1982) Sex Stereotypes and Reading: Research and Strategies. Posner, Roland (1982) Rational Discourse and Poetic Communication: Methods of Linguistic, Literary, and Philosophical Analysis. Prince, Gerald (1982) Narratology: The Form and Functioning of Narrative. Sharratt, Bernard (1981) Reading Relations: Structures of Literary Production. A Dialectical Text/Book. Tompkins, Jane P. (Ed.) (1981) Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism. Widdowson, Peter (Ed.) (1982) Re-Reading English. Cressy, D. (1980) Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England. Eisenstein, E.L. (1982) The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-modern Europe. Furet, F. and Ozouf, J. (1982) Reading and Writing: Literacy in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry. Mann, P.H. (1982) From Author to Reader: a Social Study of Books. Morris, R.C. (1981) Reading, Riting, and Reconstruction: the Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870. Gollasch, F.V. (Ed.) (1982) Language and Literacy: the Selected Writings of Kenneth S. Goodman. Volume I: Process, Theory, Research. Volume 2: Reading, Language and the Classroom Teacher. Miles, T.R. (1983) Dyslexia: The Pattern of Difficulties. Singer, M.H. (Ed.) (1982) Competent Reader, Disabled Reader: Research and Application. Malatesha, R.N. and Aaron, P.G. (Ed.) (1982) Reading Disorders: Varieties and Treatments.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Michael Benton, Studies in the Spectator Role: literature, painting and pedagogy R. M. Klein and P. A. McMullen, (eds) Converging Methods for Understanding Reading and Dyslexia J. Riley and D. Reedy, Developing Writing for Different Purposes: Teaching about Genre in the Early Years Penni Cotton, Picture Books Sans Frontiers     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: BERTELSON. P. (ed) (1987) The Onset of Literacy. Cognitive Processes in Reading Acquisition. SNOWLING, M. (1 987) Dyslexia: A Cognitive Development Perspective. DODD, B. and CAMPBELL, R. (eds) (1987) Hearing by Eye: thepsychology of lip-reading. MILLER, N. (ed) (1984) Bilingualism and Language Disability: assessment and remediation. PEARSON, D. BARR, R., KAMIL, M.L. and MOSENTHAL, P. (eds) (1984) Handbook of Reading Research. ORASANU, J. (ed) (1986) Reading Comprehension: From Research to Practice. POSNER, M.I. and MARIN. O.S.M. (1985) Attention and Performance XI. COLTHEART, M. (1 987) Attention and Performance XII. WADE, B. and MOORE, M. (1987) Special Children … Special Needs: Provision in Ordinary Classrooms. MCNAUGHTON, s. (1987) Being Skilled. The Socializations of learning to read. FREIRE. P. and MACEDO, D. (1987) Literacy: Reading the Word and the World. ALVERMANN, D.E. DILLON. D.R. and O'BRIEN. D.G. (1987) Using Discussion to promote Reading Comprehension. SCHIEFFELIN, B. and GILMORE. P. (1986) The Acquisition Of Literacy: Ethnographic Perspectives. SMITH, P. (ed) (1987) Parents and teachers together: Proceedings of the twenty-third annual course and conference of the United ‘Kingdom Reading Association’. MEEK, M. (1988) How Texts Teach What Readers Learn.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed: Paul Dash The Goodwill Art Service Year: 2003 Edited by Kevin Lole Nexus: where ICT and art meet Downing, D. and Watson, R. School Art: What's in it? Richard Hickman Critical Studies in Art and Design Education Editors: P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Jonathan Matthews Intricate Palette. Working the Ideas of Elliot Eisner. John Finney, Richard Hickman, Morag Nicholson, Bill Nichol and Jean Ruddock. Rebuilding Engagement through the Arts. Responding to disaffected students.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this Article: Statistics 1 By A Eccles, A Graham, and R Porkess. Teaching Statistical Concepts Anne Hawkins, Flavia Jollie and Leslie Glickman. Chance Encounters: Probability in Education By Ramesh Kapadia and Manfred Borovcnik (Eds)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Elizabeth Smyth, Sandra Acker, Paula Bourne, and Alison Prentice (eds.). Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Professional Work. Clinton B. Allison, ed. Kellie McGarrh's Hangin’in Tough: Mildred E. Doyle, School Superintendent. Margaret A. M. Murray. Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post‐World War II America. Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri (eds.). Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, The Political, The Professional. Susan F. Semel & Alan R. Sadovnik, eds. Schools of Tomorrow, Schools of Today: What Happened to Progressive Education? In series: History of Schools and Schooling Roberta Wollons (ed.). Kindergartens and Cultures: The Global Diffusion of an Idea. Dorothy W. Hewes. W.N. Hailmann: Defender of Froebel. Rita Hofstetter, Charles Magnin, Lucien Criblez, and Carlo Jenzer (eds.). Une École pour la Démocratie: Naissance et développement de l'école primaire publique en Suisse au 19e siècle. Marc Suteau. Une ville etses écoles: Nantes. 1830–1940. Charles R. Day. Schools and Work: Technical and Vocational Education in France since the Third Republic. Robert Gidney. From Hope to Harris: The Reshaping of Ontario's Schools.