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Joseph J. Slade; Regan A. R. Gurung – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: Textbooks shape the content and structure of most introductory psychology courses. It is important to compare the content of textbooks to assist educators in making the best textbook choice. Objective: The purpose of this study was to conduct an analysis of five commonly used introductory psychology textbooks and examine the extent of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Psychology, Undergraduate Study, Textbook Evaluation
Bing Wei; Zhangyu Zhan; Zhimeng Jiang; Linwei Yu – Research in Science Education, 2025
Intellectual demands of learning outcomes in the intended curriculum have always been a concern across the field of science education. In particular, the representation of those learning outcomes stipulated by the intended curriculum in science textbooks has become a big issue for both science curriculum studies and science teaching practice. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Pia Mikander; Henri Satokangas – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2024
Democracy is increasingly being challenged, by disengagement and by anti-pluralist movements (Levitsky and Ziblatt in How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, Viking, New York, 2018; Wikforss in "Därför demokrati. Om kunskapen och folkstyret" [Because of this, democracy. On knowledge and people's rule] Fri Tanke, 2021;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Democratic Values, Cultural Pluralism
An Overview of Textbooks in the Context of Critical Pedagogy: Poverty, Unemployment and Homelessness
Latif Gökalp; Halime Ünaldi Gökalp – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
In today's world, it is a fact that some people want the poor to be helped and some people want poverty to be eliminated. One way to narrow the gap between these two situations is to know what children need. The premise of this study is to evaluate the role of secondary school social studies textbooks in addressing poverty, unemployment and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Secondary Education, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska; Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The aim of the study was to analyze the narratives of the Solidarity movement in upper-secondary level history textbooks, published between 1991 and 2018. Quantitative methods were used to measure different categories of historical figures in terms of their frequency and textual space, as well as any changes in representation over time. To explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, History
Seaman, Julia E.; Seaman, Jeff – Bay View Analytics, 2021
This study explores how faculty members select and use the educational materials employed in their courses. The primary sample represents all teaching faculty across all types of degree-granting higher education institution in the United States. Two subgroups of faculty are called out for detailed examination: those teaching large-enrollment…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Textbook Selection, Textbook Evaluation
Copley, Keith – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2018
The widespread use of commercially produced coursebooks tailored to a global market remains a reality within English language teaching (ELT) across a broad range of teaching contexts. Most of these coursebooks profess to being vaguely communicative in their approach, while at the same time attempting to package and present language as a…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Course Content, Ideology, Textbook Content
Bouhlal, Fatma; Horst, Marlise; Martini, Juliane – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
This study investigates modality in textbooks designed for learners of English by exploring the frequency and distribution of modal verbs in two corpora--one of authentic native-speaker language and a pedagogical one used by francophone learners of English in Quebec--with a view to identifying areas where added support for learning may be…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, English Language Learners, Verbs
Deckman, Sherry L.; Fulmer, Ellie Fitts; Kirby, Keely; Hoover, Katharine; Mackall, Abena Subira – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2018
Textbooks are a multimillion dollar publishing business in the United States. Even as 21st-century classrooms become more multimodal, digital and hardcopy textbooks remain a key feature of American education. Consequently, classroom textbooks have been shown to control knowledge dissemination across the content areas. In particular, health texts…
Descriptors: Race, Gender Differences, Sexuality, Elementary Education
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
Badua, Frank; Sharifi, Mohsen; Mendez Mediavilla, Francis – Journal of Education for Business, 2014
The factors involved in the selection of accounting textbooks are under-investigated, and most of the research is survey-based, largely ignoring the information that could be analyzed by direct inspection of textbook content and its impact on textbook selection. In this study the authors fill this lacuna by deploying content analysis of the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Textbook Selection, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content
Ikahihifo, Tarah K.; Spring, Kristian J.; Rosecrans, Jane; Watson, Josh – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
Our study found that most students considered OER to be as good or better in terms of quality and engagement as traditional texts, while also allowing them to put saved funds toward their educational pursuits. As rising costs in higher education affect current and potential students, faculty and students are looking for ways to cut costs where…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Educational Objectives, Open Source Technology, Cost Effectiveness
Sungif, Nur Atiqah binti Md; Ahmad, Dayang Hartijah binti Abang; Mukundan, Jayakaran – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the contents of in-use Year 5 and Year 6 textbooks in Malaysian primary schools in exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the textbooks. Does it really apply all the methods and suitability for the pupils? It is also aim to study whether the textbooks fit to all level of pupils' proficiency in English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, English (Second Language), Textbook Evaluation
Berkeley, Sheri; King-Sears, Margaret E.; Hott, Brittany L.; Bradley-Black, Katherine – Journal of Special Education, 2014
Features of eighth-grade history textbooks were examined through replication of a 20-year-old study that investigated "considerateness" of textbooks. Considerate texts provide clear, coherent information and include features that promote students' comprehension, such as explicit use of organizational structures, a range of question types…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbook Research, Textbook Evaluation, Historiography
Liang, Ye; Cobern, William W. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a typical Chinese high school biology textbook using the textbook standards of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The data were composed of three chapters selected from the textbook. Each chapter was analyzed and rated using the AAAS textbook standards. Pearson correlations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation