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Lijun Wei; Qianqian Xiu; Danhua Zhou; Zhonghou Wang; Jingying Wang; Huijuan Yang – SAGE Open, 2024
Mathematical modeling plays an important role in improving students' interests and attitudes in reasoning, communicating and solving problems. In order to understand modeling in the popular mathematics textbooks for primary schools in China, this study developed a modeling framework for K-12 mathematics textbooks, and used content analysis method…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Tamanna Sultana; Zeba Farhana; Sameul Hoque; Md. Al-Amin – Discover Education, 2024
STEM (Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology) education has widely been considered to have the potential to prepare students with 21st-century skills. Though the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) is concerned with developing human resources for the 21st-century, STEM education has not yet achieved a strong position in the national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Textbook Evaluation
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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
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Koedel, Cory; Li, Diyi; Polikoff, Morgan S.; Hardaway, Tenice; Wrabel, Stephani L. – AERA Open, 2017
We estimate relative achievement effects of the four most commonly adopted elementary mathematics textbooks in the fall of 2008 and fall of 2009 in California. Our findings indicate that one book, Houghton Mifflin's "California Math," is more effective than the other three, raising student achievement by 0.05 to 0.08 student-level…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Mathematics, Textbooks
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Yalçinkaya, Begüm – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The aim of this study is to determine which values are included in education songs in elementary school textbooks and the level of these values. This study, conducted using document analysis method, involved primary education music class textbooks. Education songs in textbooks were analyzed within the frame of 29 values determined based on…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Singing, Elementary Education, Music Education
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Mason, Emily – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2010
Research investigating music textbook series is limited and has primarily focused on series no longer in publication, on two grade levels, and/or on limited cultures. The purpose of this study is to examine what countries are and have been represented in current music textbook series. Additional questions in the study pertain to frequency and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Textbooks, Textbook Evaluation