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Download full textSeaman, Julia E.; Seaman, Jeff – Babson Survey Research Group, 2017
This study is designed to explore the process by which faculty members select the educational materials that they employ in their courses. The most common of these is the required textbook--faculty members typically select one or more books that all students are required to use through the duration of the course. Faculty also employ a wide range…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Higher Education, Media Selection, Instructional Material Evaluation
Allen, I. Elaine; Seaman, Jeff – Babson Survey Research Group, 2016
The objective of this study is to better understand the process by which faculty members select the educational materials that they employ in their courses. The educational resource that people are most familiar with is the required textbook: faculty members select one or more books that all students are required to use through the duration of the…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Textbook Selection, Higher Education, Textbooks
Floden, R. E.; And Others – 1980
This study attempts to determine the relative power of six factors that might influence decisions of teachers about the content of fourth-grade mathematics: district tests, mandated textbooks, the principal's opinion, and parents' opinions. Sixty-six teachers were presented with descriptions of hypothetical school districts constructed to provide…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Core Curriculum, Course Content, Decision Making
