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Woodward, Arthur – 1986
The paper analyzes seven widely-used fifth grade social studies textbooks with the hypothesis that texts are unnecessarily loaded with poorly conceived instructional design features that often do not relate to content or skills and tend to minimize the primary function of the texts. Using present and future challenges facing the United States as a…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Minimum Competencies, Social Studies

McCabe, Patrick P. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1993
Reports on a study of "considerateness" of five fifth-grade social studies textbooks. Identifies four elements of considerateness: (1) readability level; (2) placement of relevant pictures or illustrations; (3) use of subtitles; and (4) use of words and phrases to connect ideas within and between sentences. (CFR)
Descriptors: Captions, Content Analysis, Grade 5, Illustrations
Vedros, Ralph G. – 1986
Learner Verification and Revision (LVR) has been part of Florida's instructional materials adoption process since 1974, when state statutes required textbook publishers to provide written proof that their materials were revised based on student feedback before publication. Publishers were also required to collect student data and make revisions…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods

Schubring, Gert – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1987
Argues that the investigation of the life and personality of textbook authors is one approach by which it is possible to analyze school life in the past. The French text author Lacroix is considered. (PK)
Descriptors: Authors, Foreign Countries, History, Mathematics Curriculum

Osborn, Jean H.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1985
Discusses the applicability of research into cognitive schemas, metacognition, instructional design, and learning strategies to textbook creation; the value of well-structured, coherent, and focused texts; readability formulas, narrative characteristics, science and social studies texts, glossaries, dictionaries, teachers' manuals, and practice…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Coherence, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design
Radford, David L. – 1989
A model for developing instructional analogies was used to produce experimental treatments that included text from a high school biology textbook to which was added extended verbal analogies written by the researcher linking each of two biology concepts to analogous familiar concepts. The control treatment was text from the biology textbook…
Descriptors: Analogy, Biology, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation

Wright, Richard A. – American Sociologist, 1995
Analyzes leading journal citations for introductory sociology textbooks to determine if there has been a decline in the quality of such textbooks. Discovers a greater percentage of citations to earlier textbooks. Suggests, however, that this could be due to expanded publishing opportunities and the emphasis given to original research. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Citation Analysis, Educational History, Educational Quality

Reese, Lyn – Social Studies Review, 1994
Contends that social studies textbooks remain a basic source of information for students and they ascribe to texts the values of objectivity and truth. Concludes that, in spite of improvements in recent years, six major concerns about gender-related issues remain. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Females, Historians