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Polikoff, Morgan S.; Campbell, Shauna E.; Rabovsky, Sarah; Koedel, Cory; Le, Quynh Tien; Hardaway, Tenice; Gasparian, Hovanes – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
Textbooks are a widely used educational intervention that can affect student achievement, and the marginal cost of choosing a more effective textbook is typically small. However, we know little about how textbooks get from the publisher to the classroom. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways mathematics textbook adoption practices…
Descriptors: School Districts, Textbook Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Mathematics Education
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Hilton, John, III – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Textbooks are a vital component in many higher education contexts. Increasing textbook prices, coupled with general rising costs of higher education have led some instructors to experiment with substituting open educational resources (OER) for commercial textbooks as their primary class curriculum. This article synthesizes the results of 16…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Textbook Evaluation, Reading Material Selection, Educational Resources