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Ashley Berner; Anika Prather; José A. Gregory; Charles Kamasaki; Viviana López Green – UnidosUS, 2023
In fall 2022, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy (the Institute) and UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights organization in the country, designed a project to better understand the representation of Latinos in U.S. History textbooks for high school. Recent years have brought increased awareness that students learn best when they…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Textbook Content, Textbooks, Hispanic American Culture
Beerwinkle, Andrea L.; Owens, Julie; Hudson, Alida – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
This study examined the comprehension skills and strategies presented in current reading textbooks used within the United States as a means of describing a contributor to the ecological component of reading. The ways in which comprehension skills and strategies are distributed across genres as well as connected to the National Reading Panel…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Gholami, Reza; Noordin, Nooreen; Rafik-Galea, Shameem – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
It is thoroughly agreed that English language textbooks stand amongst the foremost components in any language classrooms worldwide, being referred to as valid, beneficial and labor-saving tools to fulfill an extensive range of needs. An ELT textbook is not merely a set of sheets of paper fastened together to hinge at one side, but is the beating…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Inquiry, Textbook Selection, English (Second Language)
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
Wojcik, Teresa G.; Heitzmann, Ray; Kilbride, Candice; Hartwell, Daniel – Social Studies, 2013
Social studies methods textbooks constitute a rich source of data for trends in teaching and learning. This study examined twenty secondary social studies methods texts for the instructional approaches they recommend. The researchers concluded that methods texts published over the past fifty years consistently call for pedagogical variety and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Studies, History, Textbook Evaluation
Watt, Michael G. – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this article was to review published research literature about procedures used to select textbooks in the USA. The contents of books, collected works, reports and journal articles were analysed, and summaries of the contents were then organised chronologically to present a commentary on the topic. The results showed that procedures…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Selection, Journal Articles, Literature Reviews

Hewett, Roger S. – Journal of Economic Education, 1987
Reviews undergraduate public finance textbooks for content, difficulty, and ideology. Includes tables summarizing the percentage space devoted to specific topics in 13 popular textbooks. Offers suggestions for supplementary materials. (Author/DH)
Descriptors: Economics Education, Higher Education, Public Support, Textbook Evaluation

Krynski, Kathy J. – Journal of Economic Education, 1987
Discusses content, perspective, and level of analysis of nine recent books suitable for use in an undergraduate course on the role of women in the labor market. Four books are judged more suitable as standard textbooks; the remaining five function better as collections of supplementary readings. (Author/DH)
Descriptors: Economics Education, Higher Education, Labor Market, Textbook Evaluation

Giordano, Gerard – Clearing House, 1982
Offers a worksheet for evaluating the readability of content area textbooks. (RL)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Readability, Secondary Education

Mertens, Thomas R.; Polk, Nannett C. – American Biology Teacher, 1980
Reports a review of 13 genetics textbooks published from 1975 to 1979. Six tables present summaries of the significant data about the books, specific topics covered in the texts, and the number of pages devoted to each of 15 general topics in each textbook evaluated. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Genetics, Higher Education, Science Education

Lehr, Fran – Reading Teacher, 1979
Suggests sources which can guide schools in evaluating textbooks. (MKM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Textbook Bias, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Tierney, Robert J.; And Others – 1980
This paper suggests that teachers concentrate on the ideational and structural properties of text rather than on information acquired from readability formulas when selecting and using texts. Emphasis is given to the importance of context in the analysis of text, and a framework is suggested for examining the text considering the functions texts…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Prose, Readability

Ade-Ridder, Linda – Family Relations, 1989
Discusses issues involved in the selection of textbooks for family life education: diversity of marriage and family course offerings; difficulties in locating appropriate materials; and criteria for text selection. Reviews 14 university texts published in 1987 and 1988. Calls for texts which cover aspects of marriage and family with greater depth.…
Descriptors: College Students, Family Life, Family Life Education, Higher Education
Ariew, Robert – 1982
The lack of cultural content, low interest level, and crowdedness of second language textbooks arise because every textbook represents a compromise: between the publisher's need to sell a book and the author's need to address specific pedagogical issues, and between the need to explain grammatical points fully and the need to explain them briefly.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Developed Materials, Textbook Content

Sippola, Arne E. – Reading Horizons, 1994
Provides a brief synopsis of whole-language characteristics that could be germane to analyses of basal programs. Presents an assessment tool designed to assist teachers, administrators, and curriculum adoption teams in evaluating the degree to which commercial basal reader programs adhere to whole-language characteristics. (RS)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Holistic Evaluation
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