This article is a sort of a questionaire that was sent out to English and Social Studies chairman and Audio Visual directors. It generally shows that more things need to be done to improve the schools but with less money. (Editor/MR)

Briefly describes the process of textbook selection and offers some guidelines to help board members who may serve on selection committees. (IRT)

The authors investigate whether the choice of college textbook affects students' comprehension of the material. Forty-eight students from educational psychology courses were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (1) unfamiliar passages drawn from the textbook used in the course, or (2) comparable passages selected from a competitor textbook.…

Written as resource material for the college store manager when answering questions regarding textbooks. Answers and supporting documents, or exhibits, for the questions are included. (Author/PG)

Textbook Adoption: The process, in place in twenty-one states, of reviewing textbooks according to state guidelines and then mandating specific books that schools must use, or lists of approved textbooks that schools must choose from. It consistently produces second-rate textbooks that replicate the same flaws and failings over and over again.…

Selecting textbooks can be a difficult and overwhelming process. Inundated with choices of texts and supplemental materials, teachers have many factors to consider. This brochure is designed to assist with the process by offering both key questions for discussion and criteria for evaluating textbooks.

Reviews three books as potential philosophy of education textbooks: "Philosophical Documents in Education" (Ronald F. Reed, Ed. and Tony W. Johnson, Ed.); "Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Education" (Christopher Winch and John Gingell); and "Educational Philosophy: A History from the Ancient World to Modern America" (Edward J.Power). The paper…

Textbook selection strongly influences on what students will learn and what the teachers will teach. Certain statements regarding the process of development and selecting mathematics textbooks are given and assessed.

This article examines the process by which college-level foreign language programs evaluate and select instructional materials for beginning level courses. A review of the relevant literature reveals an ambivalent relationship with textbooks, often the default curriculum for language courses. Despite textbooks' apparent key role in language…

Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community College. Their students self-identify with various nationalities, races, religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Not only do students adopt diverse identity markers, but they also come to their classroom with variant skill levels. It is difficult…

Provides a listing of 92 textbooks used in high school and college introductory psychology courses. Popular high school textbooks are identified separately. Journal citations for reviews of 78 of these textbooks are provided. (JDH)

Article seeks to alert educators to the problems resulting from the use of textbooks that are unsatisfactory, and indeed harmful, to members of both majority and minority groups. (Author/GB)

Revised, shortened version of a paper presented in Hagen, West Germany, 1970. (RS)

Presents a standard textbook adoption process orchestrated by a textbook selection committee. The committee conducts a needs survey, reviews materials, selects three series finalists, arranges for the publishers of the selected materials to make presentations to the faculty, visits schools using the materials, and makes a final choice. (Author/WD)