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Identifying And Validating The Constituents Of Literary Response Through A Modification Of The Response Preference Measure, Jane Ann Zaharias

Educational Studies, Research, and Technology Department Faculty Publications

The principal purpose of this study was to determine the low inference constituents of literary response. Data were obtained from 166 college undergraduates enrolled in nine introductory literature courses. A stimulus condition consisting of six dissimilar short stories and poems was devised. After reading each literary work, subjects were asked to complete a modified version of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement's Response Preference Measure. To determine empirically the constituents of literary response, subjects' ratings for each item for all six forms of the Response Preference Measure were jointly subjected to the principal axis method of common …

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 08, Winter 1983, Cleveland State University

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CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO.8, WINTER, 1983

Walter C. Leedy, Jr: Cleveland's Terminal Tower: the Van Sweringens' Afterthought, 3

The financial, political, and architectUIal saga of the building of Cleveland's central landmark.

Clinton L. Warne: The Great Natural Gas Pipeline Rip-Off, 27

President Reagan's waiver of all effective regulation of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline could have a damaging effect on the national economy while insuring private investors' profits.

Jerrold Sadock: Languages of the World: Inuit (Eskimo), 31

The language with the longest words in the world.

Winners of the Gamut Prize in the Visual Arts, 35 …