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Willingham, Daniel T. – American Educator, 2023
Coordinating meaning across sentences is crucial to reading comprehension, because sentences can take on quite different meanings depending on the surrounding context. The same need applies in a far more complex way when reading textbooks. Writers organize the material hierarchically, so readers often need to connect what they're reading now to…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Students, Reading, Difficulty Level
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Ruhama Even; Boaz Silverman – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
When justifying a mathematical statement, textbooks often interweave several instances of justification, creating, what we term, "paths of justification." This study aims to characterize the paths of justification of mathematical statements that are offered in eight 7th grade Israeli mathematics textbooks. The study attended to context…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 7, Textbooks
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Chen, Tseng-Chuan – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The study aimed to examine how emotional design and digitalization/mobilization of textbooks influence students' emotion, cognitive load, and cognitive performance. Research samples were 147 undergraduate students enrolling in the "Introduction to Internet" course at a university. They were randomly divided into three groups: 51 students…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes
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Chi-Cheng Chang; Tseng-Chuan Chen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study aims to explore how e-textbooks with emotional design affect students' emotion, cognitive load and learning achievement. There were 147 freshman students in total: the experimental group I, II and control group consisted of 49, 47 and 51 students, using e-textbooks with emotional design, without emotional design and traditional paper…
Descriptors: Electronic Books, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, College Freshmen
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Ruth French – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explain key aspects of teaching and learning relevant to sustaining literacy development beyond the early years of schooling, including effective teaching of more complex texts. The paper takes as its point of departure Touchstone 9 of the Foundation Touchstones promoted by the Foundation of Learning and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Sustainability, Psychological Patterns, Difficulty Level
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Soyeon Kim; Jung Bog Kim – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Despite increased research interest in improving students' scientific inquiry abilities, how to conduct scientific inquiry using science textbooks that are easily accessible to primary school students remains understudied. This study developed and verified an inquiry activity model (IAM) to improve the performance of primary school students in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Awaah, Fred; Okebukola, Peter; Shabani, Juma; Arkorful, Helen – Cogent Education, 2023
Studies on reasons accounting for the difficulties in learning public administration is relatively new in the public administration literature though many findings exist regarding students' difficulties in the study of different subject areas. This paper examines whether the perceived reasons in other subjects are real in the study of public…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions, Concept Formation
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Polat, Semra; Dede, Yüksel – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2023
This study reports a small part of a large-scale study. In this vein, trends in cognitive demand levels of mathematical tasks in the Algebra Learning Domain of 5 mathematics textbooks prepared according to four middle school mathematics curricula that have been updated since the beginning of the 2000s in Turkey were determined. This study is a…
Descriptors: Algebra, Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Textbooks
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Seyedehkhadijeh Azimi Asmaroud – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Textbooks play an important role in teachers' instructional decisions (Jones & Tarr, 2007), which consequently affects students' learning. This paper reports on a comparison of the elementary mathematics textbooks used in Iran and the United States, the Go-Math textbook. I analyzed topic sequences, frequency of the tasks, and cognitive demands…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Fractions, Textbooks
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Bilal Özçakir – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
The Century of Turkey Education Model, introduced in 2024, emphasizes developing critical thinking and analytical skills, with the Mathematics Curriculum. This curriculum integrates literacy skills in learning objectives, particularly financial literacy, to empower students in making informed economic decisions and managing resources effectively.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Financial Literacy, Mathematics Instruction
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Uchenna Asogwa; T. Ryan Duckett; Amanda P. Malefyt; Lindsey Stevens; Gale Mentzer; Matthew W. Liberatore – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Complex problem solving is one of the skills desired in the 21st century workforce. Students can improve their problem-solving skills by working on homework problems, and creating new problems can be a stimulating and inventive exercise for student as well. Our previous studies explored the impacts of a novel homework pedagogy where students…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Student Centered Learning, Textbooks, Comparative Analysis
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Koc-Januchta, Marta M.; Schönborn, Konrad J.; Roehrig, Casey; Chaudhri, Vinay K.; Tibell, Lena A. E.; Heller, H. Craig – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2022
Rapid developments in educational technology in higher education are intended to make learning more engaging and effective. At the same time, cognitive load theory stresses limitations of human cognitive architecture and urges educational developers to design learning tools that optimise learners' mental capacities. In a 2-month study we…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Usability, Biology
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Basyal, Deepak; Jones, Dustin L.; Thapa, Mohan – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
We investigated the cognitive demand of the exercise problems that middle school students from Nepal are expected to complete. The middle school (grades 6, 7, and 8) mathematics textbooks examined in this study were published and distributed by the government of Nepal. Our data set consisted of textbooks that are currently in use in public schools…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Activities
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Sen, Erhan; Karagül, Sedat – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
It is important to supply students with skills about text type and structure in educational environments. To have such skills gives the student many advantages in the process of comprehending, and evaluating any text. This study aims to bring out the opinions of Turkish language teachers and elementary school teachers about teaching text type and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Text Structure, Writing (Composition), Language Teachers
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Roger Young; Emily Courtney; Alexander Kah; Mariah Wilkerson; Yi-Hsin Chen – Teaching of Psychology, 2025
Background: Multiple-choice item (MCI) assessments are burdensome for instructors to develop. Artificial intelligence (AI, e.g., ChatGPT) can streamline the process without sacrificing quality. The quality of AI-generated MCIs and human experts is comparable. However, whether the quality of AI-generated MCIs is equally good across various domain-…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Multiple Choice Tests, Psychology, Textbooks
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