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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
22 May 1997
Korea in American Textbooks
& Reference Works - An Evaluation
Brigham Young Univ., USA
"Purpose of our research was to determine how Korea is treated in
various world history, world geography, world culture, and American
history textbooks written for the secondary schools in the United
States. The research focused on both the extent and depth of coverage.
We also looked for errors, and biases; we evaluated indexes; and we
counted visuals (charts, graphs, maps, and photographs) that featured
Korea. On the weighted point scale the best book had a score of 1742.
The worst overall text had only 4 points. We also did a similar survey
of the coverage given Korea in encyclopedia and other printed works as
well as CD-ROM reference works."
[Site under construction. It describes a methodology
applicable to evaluation of online resources - ed.]
URL http://www.byu.edu/kennedy/koreatext/
Information supplied by: Mark Peterson (mark_peterson@byu.edu) & Janet Davis (korea_research@byu.edu)
* Contents' rating [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
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