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Direct linkNational Center on Accessible Educational Materials, 2023
Families play an important role in ensuring their child with a disability has access to the educational materials they need to learn and succeed. This guide is designed for parents and caregivers of children who require accessible educational materials (AEM) for learning. It will provide you with information about what AEM are, how they can…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Family (Sociological Unit), Access to Education, Guides
Irwin, Clare W.; Stafford, Erin T. – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2016
This guide describes a five-step collaborative process that educators can use with other educators, researchers, and content experts to write or adapt questions and develop surveys for education contexts. This process allows educators to leverage the expertise of individuals within and outside of their organization to ensure a high-quality survey…
Descriptors: Surveys, Test Construction, Educational Cooperation, Test Items
National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, 2021
The AEM Navigator facilitates the process of decision-making around accessible formats of educational materials for individual students. It assists teams in making informed, accurate, and multi-step decisions related to determining a student's need for accessible formats, selecting the format(s) needed, acquiring materials, and determining the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Instructional Materials, Student Needs, Worksheets
Foy, Pierre, Ed.; Arora, Alka, Ed.; Stanco, Gabrielle M., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
This supplement describes national adaptations made to the international version of the TIMSS 2011 background questionnaires. This information provides users with a guide to evaluate the availability of internationally comparable data for use in secondary analyses involving the TIMSS 2011 background variables. Background questionnaire adaptations…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Technology Transfer, Adoption (Ideas), Media Adaptation
Foy, Pierre, Ed.; Drucker, Kathleen T., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
This supplement describes national adaptations made to the international version of the PIRLS/prePIRLS 2011 background questionnaires. This information provides users with a guide to evaluate the availability of internationally comparable data for use in secondary analyses involving the PIRLS/prePIRLS 2011 background variables. Background…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Databases, Media Adaptation, Technology Transfer
Peer reviewedCampbell, Clifton P. – Education + Training, 2000
Explains a process for identifying, locating, examining, and adapting instructional materials for training. Presents key considerations for evaluating, testing, and revising materials to ensure the attainment of learning objectives. (SK)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation, Instructional Materials, Media Adaptation
Peer reviewedChiang, Berttram – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
The author offers information on 11 modification techniques that may make commercial software programs more appropriate for learning disabled students. (CL)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Media Adaptation
Peer reviewedMelton, Reginald F. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1990
Discussion of the development of written instructional materials for distance education focuses on the transformation of existing materials into good teaching materials by course teams. Changes in the course as a whole are considered as well as changes in the materials; checklists are provided; and examples are given of transformed materials.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Distance Education, Instructional Materials, Material Development
Peer reviewedMoore, Phil – English in Education, 1994
Describes how the integration of sound and images in multimedia presentations may affect the future of writing. Discusses the impact on the concepts of "author" and "authorship." Focuses on the importance of knowing how integrated media texts work. Posits that children already perceive the relationship between image, word, and sound as being…
Descriptors: Authors, Elementary Education, Media Adaptation, Multimedia Materials
Gothard, James E. – 1989
Procedures enabling the placement of diacritical markings over a character for printing in PostScript fonts on an Apple LaserWriter printer are described. The procedures involve some programming in the PostScript Language and manipulation of Adobe PostScript fonts. It is assumed that Microsoft Word will be used to create the text to be printed.…
Descriptors: Computer Printers, Computer Software, Diacritical Marking, Media Adaptation
Geraghty, Christine; Simpson, Philip – 1986
Noting that little theoretical work has been done on the processes of adapting novels for television viewing, and that what discussion there is tends to concentrate on judgments about "faithfulness" to the original, this paper suggests that more can be gained from approaching television adaptations in a less literal way, and shows how…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Guidelines, Media Adaptation, Narration
McMahon, Judith – School Library Journal, 1990
Considers arguments for and against the use of videotape productions of children's literature as motivators to reading. Criteria for the selection of videos that are successful adaptations of books are identified and discussed in the context of specific video productions. (four references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Creative Thinking, Evaluation Criteria, Imagination
Overton, Terry Leonard – Techniques, 1987
Careful analysis of the instructional materials available for the mainstreamed student is necessary for effective teaching. A checklist for such analysis considers: appropriate objectives; readability; interest level; method of presentation; prerequisites; format; task length, number, and difficulty; criterion level for success; and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Instructional Material Evaluation
Caissy, Gail A. – Executive Educator, 1986
Establishing a software evaluation committee provides administrators with technical expertise in determining appropriate software. Committee members should include a curriculum expert, a computer expert, and a subject area teacher. (CJH)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Material Evaluation
Ng, Raymond – 1986
Instructional designers who are asked to convert existing training materials into computer-based training (CBT) must take special precautions to avoid making the product into a sophisticated page turner. Although conversion may save considerable time on subject research and analysis, courses to be delivered through microcomputers may require…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Courseware, Guidelines
