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Choppin, Alain – 1990
Until the end of the last century the school textbook served only one purpose, which was to educate; today, faced with competition from the media, it also must be attractive. The development of the textbook over the last century has been characterized, on one hand, by greater diversity, and hence greater complexity, in the typographical methods…
Descriptors: Design, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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

Johnsen, Egil Borre – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1994
Contends that an author's contribution to a textbook may be more or less significant, depending on how much importance is attached to curricula, publishers, consultants, and the school environment. Discusses the changing role of textbook authors in Norway and other nations. Reviews research on textbook development and textbook writing. (CFR)
Descriptors: Authors, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education

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
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
Duchastel, Philippe – 1984
Organized in three sections, this report presents the first case study from a project aimed at developing prototypes of ideal textbook chapters. The report (1) discusses the Ideal Text Project, in which a number of researchers in instructional science have been challenged to design a textbook chapter that incorporates the design features they…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Educational Psychology
Grabinger, R. Scott – 1986
Several text format variables were examined in an attempt to identify the ways in which these variables interact in specific design combinations. The variables include: heading location (embedded or isolated); line length (short or long); space between lines (single or double); paragraph indication (indented or spaced); use of running heads…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction