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Spinelli Barria, Michele; Morales, Cecilia; Merino, Cristian; Quiroz, Waldo – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
In this work, we developed an ontological tool, based on the scientific realism of Mario Bunge, for the analysis of the presentation of natural processes in science textbooks. This tool was applied to analyze the presentation of the concept of osmosis in 16 chemistry and biology books at different educational levels. The results showed that more…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Teaching, Scientific Principles, Biochemistry
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Tinkler, Sarah; Woods, James – Journal of Economic Education, 2013
The authors evaluated principles of macroeconomics textbooks for readability using Coh-Metrix, a computational linguistics tool. Additionally, they conducted an experiment on Amazon's Mechanical Turk Web site in which participants ranked the readability of text samples. There was a wide range of scores on readability indexes both among…
Descriptors: Macroeconomics, Textbooks, Readability, Computational Linguistics
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Lee, HeeJeong Jasmine; Messom, Chris; Yau, Kok-Lim Alvin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
An electronic textbook (e-Textbook) is a digitized (or electronic) form of textbook, which normally needs an endorsement by the national or state government when it is used in the K-12 education system. E-Textbooks have been envisioned to replace existing paper-based textbooks due to its educational advantages. Hence, it is of paramount importance…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Investigations, Textbooks, Program Implementation
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Robinson, Richard – Reading Psychology, 2007
This article describes ten of what the author considers to be the most important references in the field of literacy education based on their influence on teaching practices and educational theory.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Instructional Material Evaluation, Textbook Content