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Peer reviewedGuenther, John; Hansen, Patricia – Journal of Social Studies Research, 1977
The purposes of this study were to determine the social studies series adoption policies of midwestern school districts and to identify the most popular and successful series in use. Data were provided by elementary principals in 186 randomly selected school districts. Available from: Department of Social Science Education, University of Georgia,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Peer reviewedSchneider, E. Ruth – Science and Children, 1977
Discusses procedures for selecting textbooks. Provided are guidelines for reviewing textbooks, analyzing content, and analyzing strategies. (SL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Evaluation, Guidelines
Download full textRoss, Elinor P. – 1989
The process of evaluating and selecting basal readers has long been a primary concern for educators. Educators directly involved with textbook adoptions have expressed several concerns, including: time pressures on evaluators; lack of training for evaluators; concerns related to publishers; and correlations with state or district curriculum.…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Models
Suh, Bernadyn K. – 1970
A model of social studies textbook analysis and evaluation is developed in this paper and is applied to the analysis and evaluation of the content on Hawaii in selected elementary school social studies textbooks. Innovative methods of content analysis and evaluation of textbook presentations were developed and applied to the subject of Hawaii to…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Models
Breiter, Joan; Menne, Jack – 1974
This study focuses on two tasks: (1) the development of a general procedure for evaluation of social studies textbooks which could be adapted to any locale, which could be used at any grade level, and which might be applied to other subject areas, and (2) to illustrate the suggested procedure at the fifth-grade level. The procedure involves the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making Skills, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1988
Publishers are compelled by public policies and practices to produce textbooks that confuse students with non sequiturs, mislead them with misinformation, and bore them with pointlessly arid writing. Recommendations for textbook policy are proposed. (BJV)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation
Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet – 1988
Many feel that textbooks dominate what students learn. They set the curriculum and often the facts learned in most subjects. For many students, textbooks are their first and sometimes only early exposure to books and to reading. The public regards textbooks as authoritative, accurate and necessary and many teachers rely on them to organize lessons…
Descriptors: Books, Curriculum, Elementary Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Davison, Donald G.; And Others – 1973
The report is an evaluation of the economic content and teaching strategies of social studies textbooks that are used in grades one through six. The study, supported by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation, was part of a kindergarten through grade twelve assessment of the treatment of economics in social studies textual materials made under the direction…
Descriptors: Economics, Economics Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The intent of the learning module described here is to increase users' skills in selecting effective instructional products for their classrooms. The module familiarizes users with product selection criteria and involves the user in practical demonstration of product selection. This descriptive report provides information on the purposes and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials
Weitzman, Lenore J.; Rizzo, Diane – 1974
This research report focuses on the latent content of textbooks, the information attempting to instruct the child in ethical and moral values. Textbooks being used in the average classrooms in the United States today in grades one through six were examined and analyzed to discover the way the two sexes are portrayed and the types of behavior…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Racial Discrimination, Reading Instruction
California State Board of Education, Sacramento. – 1983
This Invitation to Submit Materials provides an overview of the total instructional materials adoption-distribution process and specific instructions relating to initial submissions for materials to be used in California schools--kindergarten through grades 1 to 8--in the areas of art, music, bilingual and bicultural education, English as a Second…
Descriptors: Art Education, Bilingual Education, Compliance (Legal), Elementary Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1985
The results of an APEID (Asia and the Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development) workshop on producing textbooks and other teaching and learning materials, especially in reading, for the first level of education are provided in this book. An initial overview presents the objectives and the organization of the workshop. The second…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Material Evaluation, Instructional Materials
Britton, Gwyneth; Lumpkin, Margaret – 1977
Containing quantitative analyses of 49 reading, literature, and social studies series, this resource guide is intended for use by parents and educators who are concerned with sex, race, and career role bias in elementary school textbooks. The eight chapters of the guide include the following: charts of major character role and career role…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Career Awareness, Child Role, Elementary Education
