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Direct linkHayes, Jennifer A.; Temple-Smith, Meredith J. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2022
It has been widely claimed that reductions in allocated teaching time and the widespread implementation of short-cut teaching methodologies have led to a shortfall in anatomy knowledge among graduating doctors. This decline in knowledge is evident in the failure of anatomy content to prepare graduates for contemporary clinical practice. The…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Anatomy, Medical Students, Gender Differences
Download full textGuerra, Patricia L.; Baker, A. Minor; Cotman, Ann Marie – Journal of Educational Supervision, 2022
The purpose of this study was to determine whether and to what degree textbooks are preparing aspiring principals as culturally responsive instructional supervisors. After evaluating multiple textbooks against selection criteria, "SuperVision and Instructional Leadership: A Developmental Approach," was identified as the study's unit of…
Descriptors: Supervision, Culturally Relevant Education, Textbook Evaluation, Administrator Education
Carolyn Gascoigne – Dimensions, 2023
Following a brief historical review of the second language teaching profession's relationship with first- and second-year textbooks, this article examines the treatment of language practice activities as found in beginning post-secondary French eBooks, as well as their accompanying electronic workbooks and online learning platform practice. Using…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Drills (Practice), Electronic Books
Daniel Theriault – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2024
Diversity courses are integral to higher leisure education curricula and united by the following assumptions: (a) recreation programs involve encounters with "different" groups of people and (b) future professionals require a specialized set of knowledge and skills in order to manage those interactions. Although several scholars have…
Descriptors: Leisure Education, Diversity, Concept Formation, Race
Sangam, Deepika; Jesiek, Brent K. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2015
Many university-level electrical engineering courses continue to use textbooks as curriculum scaffolds, prescribed texts, and/or reference volumes. Textbook reliance is even more pronounced in courses that teach foundational principles of the discipline, such as introductory circuit theory. This paper reports on the conceptual coverage of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Electronic Equipment
Griggs, Richard A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
Asch's classic social pressure experiments are discussed in almost all introductory and social psychology textbooks. However, the results of these experiments have been shown to be misrepresented in textbooks. An analysis of textbooks from 1953 to 1984 revealed that although most of the responses on critical trials were independent correct ones,…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Bias, Textbook Standards, Social Psychology
Hilton, John, III – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Textbooks are a vital component in many higher education contexts. Increasing textbook prices, coupled with general rising costs of higher education have led some instructors to experiment with substituting open educational resources (OER) for commercial textbooks as their primary class curriculum. This article synthesizes the results of 16…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Textbook Evaluation, Reading Material Selection, Educational Resources
Shin, Kyoung-Ho – Multicultural Education Review, 2014
Focusing on global multiculturalism, this study offers a content review of undergraduate introductory sociology textbooks that are being used in the United States. Through both quantitative and qualitative review of texts, it is found that there is a considerable variation in the way which concepts and latent meanings are embedded within textbook…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Undergraduate Students, Sociology, Introductory Courses
Griggs, Richard A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2014
To determine how topical coverage in introductory textbooks may have changed from the 1980s to the present, the author examined topic coverage in full-length and brief introductory textbooks from this time period. Because 98% of the teachers use textbooks for the introductory course and the majority do not assign reading beyond the textbook, the…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Textbook Content, Course Descriptions, Course Content
Ramos, Joseba Ezeiza – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
This article presents a study carried out on eight Spanish legal textbooks in order to draw up an inventory of educational resources available to support the development of law students' communicative competence, taking into account the law degree curricula at Spanish universities (Ezeiza Ramos forthcoming a, forthcoming b). The analysis was…
Descriptors: College Students, Legal Education (Professions), Communicative Competence (Languages), Spanish
Vicknair, David; Wright, Jeffrey – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
Evidence of confusion in intermediate accounting textbooks regarding the annual percentage rate (APR) and annual effective rate (AER) is presented. The APR and AER are briefly discussed in the context of a note payable and correct formulas for computing each is provided. Representative examples of the types of confusion that we found is presented…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Azer, Samy A. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2014
The aim of this study was to assess the contents of medical textbooks, eMedicine (Medscape) topics, and YouTube videos on cardiovascular mechanisms. Medical textbooks, eMedicine articles, and YouTube were searched for cardiovascular mechanisms. Using appraisal forms, copies of these resources and videos were evaluated independently by three…
Descriptors: Heart Disorders, Textbooks, Video Technology, Electronic Publishing
Sagafi-nejad, Tagi; Limaye, Aditya – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2014
As a field of study, international business (IB) has evolved with accelerated tempo in the last four decades. The subject has brought with it an increasing plethora of textbooks. We analyze the contents of major textbooks, both classic and new, to find the extent to which these textbooks cover the various components of the common body of knowledge…
Descriptors: International Trade, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Business Administration Education
