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Cecilia Kim Yoon – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In a time of rapid change and uncertainty, the skills that students must acquire are becoming more focused on creativity. Correspondingly, the development of students' creative competency should be addressed and implemented in curriculum. The purpose of the study is to examine how the content of a curriculum material, specifically an elementary…
Descriptors: Creativity, Grade 5, Textbooks, Elementary School Students
Stephen Puklin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The traditional textbook model is problematic for students who either buy expensive textbooks and add to their already considerable student debt, opt out of buying expensive textbooks, or opt out of enrolling in courses known to require expensive textbooks. Switching to open textbooks directly addresses these problems by decreasing costs, removing…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Open Educational Resources, Adoption (Ideas), Teacher Characteristics
Robert O. Spencer – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Common elements amongst all educational institutions are varying processes of selecting educational materials ("Choosing Blindly Instructional Materials", 2016). Whether they be textbooks, curriculum, access to internet-based platforms or other ancillary materials every educational institution participates in some manner of cyclic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Study, Textbooks, Textbook Selection
Demszky, Dorottya – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Language is central to education, being the core medium of instruction. Researchers and practitioners have long used manual methods to analyze instructional language like classroom discourse and instructional texts, with the goal of facilitating student-centered instruction. In this dissertation, I offer three studies demonstrating how natural…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Student Centered Learning, Textbook Content, Evaluation Methods
McMahan, Chris – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation develops and estimates a model of switching costs in the market for college textbooks. First, in a theoretical setting, this paper characterizes the professor's adoption decision, which includes a trade-off between time and course quality. The professor faces a time cost when he switches textbooks. This switching cost leads…
Descriptors: Costs, Textbooks, Models, College Faculty
Monaghan, Susan R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to extend the research on textbook effectiveness to a situated investigation of a single large urban school district in which middle schools were given a choice in selecting from three textbooks for mathematics instruction: a reform textbook, a commercially produced textbook developed in response to mathematics…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
Padgett, Gary – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the portrayal of American Indians in U.S. textbooks selected for review in Hillsborough County, Florida's 2012 textbook adoption. The study identified which of the textbooks under consideration contained the greatest amount of information dedicated to American Indians. The study then analyzed…
Descriptors: United States History, American Indians, American Indian History, Textbooks