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Patac, Adriano Villarosa, Jr.; Patac, Louida Penera; Crispo, Nicolas Ensomo, Jr. – Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2022
Teaching axiomatic representation of mathematical objects in all grades can and should be done. The paper analyzes students' understanding and how they perceive theorems using problem posing. We looked at how English-language learners create questions about four geometric theorems from a 9th-grade math textbook. The analysis looks at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 9, Second Language Learning
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Protner, Edvard – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
This article reconstructs the phases of development of the history of education as a school subject and subject within the framework of the education of teachers at teacher training schools from 1869 onwards, and the presence of these contents at teacher training academies after 1960 and faculties of education after 1986. At the same time, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Textbooks, Teacher Education Programs
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Dyrvold, Anneli – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2022
Digital media offer new opportunities to visualise mathematics and to engage students in interactive activities. The launching of digital teaching platforms in mathematics has, however, been met with some hesitation, and printed textbooks still play a substantial role in classrooms. This study addresses questions about how affordances of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Management Systems, Learner Engagement, Textbooks
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Xiang, Xi; Chen, Yaling; Fang, Yuan; Zhang, Qi – Journal of Geography, 2022
The recent round of curriculum reform in China has proposed the educational goal of developing key competencies. This study examined how key competencies are integrated into geography textbooks for middle schools through pre-designed activities. The results showed that the textbooks emphasized the regional awareness competency. The activities in…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Secondary School Students, Competency Based Education, Foreign Countries
Fletcher, Carla – Trellis Company, 2022
While enrollments across all higher education sectors decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, this decline has been particularly steep for community colleges. Many colleges and universities across the country instituted tuition freezes during the pandemic as a way to try to retain enrolled students and attract potential students, and relief funds…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Money Management, Wellness
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Hongye Liu; Lawrence Angrave; Jennifer R. Amos; David Dalpiaz; Chrysafis Vogiatzis; Zhiyuan Xiao; Sujit Varadhan; Jeremy Louie – Grantee Submission, 2022
Accessibility of course content plays a critical role in student success. Among all college students, students with disabilities (SWD) face numerous additional challenges when digital content is inaccessible or difficult to use. The main contributions of this paper are firstly we examined different course delivery modalities to identify components…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Students with Disabilities, College Students, Barriers
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Schmid, Kelly M.; Lee, Dennis; Weindling, Monica; Syed, Awais; Agyemang, Stephanie-Louise Yacoba; Donovan, Brian; Radick, Gregory; Smith, Michelle K. – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2022
Undergraduate genetics courses have historically focused on simple genetic models, rather than taking a more multifactorial approach where students explore how traits are influenced by a combination of genes, the environment, and gene-by-environment interactions. While a focus on simple genetic models can provide straightforward examples to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Genetics, Science Instruction, Models
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D'Souza, Carol; Brahme, Milind; Babu, M. Suresh – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2020
This article analyses the National Council of Educational Research and Training textbooks of environmental studies using critical discourse analysis to shed light on questions such as how the environment is dealt with in the text, using what kind of language are environmental concerns framed, how is the current environment crisis contextualized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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James, Mark A. – TESOL Journal, 2017
For teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) to be seen as having substantial impact, learning that occurs in the classroom must transfer to situations outside the classroom. Unfortunately, education research shows that transfer can be difficult to promote. Therefore, ESOL teachers may want to ensure that their classes are as…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Schultz, Leah – Information Systems Education Journal, 2017
This paper examines the issues useful for faculty members that are considering electronically self-publishing their course textbook. A brief history of the use of electronic textbooks is presented as well as the advantages and disadvantages associated with self-publishing and electronic textbooks. A brief overview is provided on the process of…
Descriptors: Textbook Publication, Faculty Publishing, Writing for Publication, Electronic Publishing
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Zhao, Weiju; Zhang, Zhiping; Liu, Juan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Family is the essential unit of society as well as the pupils' cradle for growing up. It is particularly significant to help pupils understand "family," then form a scientific concept of the family and develop a positive family sentiment. In the current primary school textbooks of "Morality and Life (Society)" (version of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Family (Sociological Unit), Textbooks
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Muzaffar, Muhammad; Arshad Javaid, Muhammad; Sohail, Fariha – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2017
This study was designed to determine the role of Pakistan studies in promoting political awareness among the secondary level students in Pakistan. The study was delimited to three divisions of the Punjab province. A sample of 480 students was taken from the High and Higher Secondary Schools of Faisalabad, Multan and Rawalpindi Divisions. The tools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Issues, Consciousness Raising, Knowledge Level
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Ravinder, Handanhal; Misra, Ram B. – American Journal of Business Education, 2016
This paper critically examines the treatment of the statistical basis for Six Sigma and process capability in popular operations management textbooks. It discusses areas of confusion and suggest ways of treating the topic that make sense to instructors as well as students. Even though Six Sigma was introduced almost 30 years ago, misconceptions…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Operations Research, Management Systems, Quality Control
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Ju, Mi-Kyung; Moon, Jong-Eun; Song, Ryoon-Jin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
From a multicultural perspective, this research investigated to what extent Korean mathematics textbooks use history of mathematics. The results show even though educational use of history presented in Korean mathematics textbooks may provide a rich outlook, it does not encourage a fundamental change in the educational practice of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Textbooks, History
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Diana; Foulds, Kim; Sayed, Yusuf – Education as Change, 2016
Recent years have witnessed violence in educational settings becoming an object of public concern and global mobilisation. International initiatives indicate rising levels of awareness regarding the interconnectedness of violence and education. In this context, international educational agendas identify violence in schools as a challenge to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Textbooks, Conflict
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