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Stoddard, Ann H. – 1984
Intended for primary school teachers involved in social studies instruction, this paper offers guidelines for selecting and using children's literature to teach social studies concepts. The paper first deals with selecting children's literature works, presenting basic considerations relating children's developmental stages to characteristics of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Guidelines
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1989
This report, submitted to the 71st Texas Legislature in fulfillment of the mandates contained in House Concurrent Resolution 84, summarizes a study of the feasibility of an 8-year cycle for the adoption of certain textbooks and considers the feasibility of contracting with textbook publishers on a freight prepaid basis. First, 6-year versus 8-year…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Publishing Industry
Download full textFoster, Frances Smith – 1987
American educational institutions have used the literature of a few Anglo men to represent American literature. The problem of this one-sided presentation was alleviated somewhat during the 1960s when publishers began to offer some works of ethnic writers, especially for elementary school children. This was the result of influence by the civil…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Authors, Childrens Literature, Cultural Differences
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1987
The Texas Education Agency has developed this guide to assist members of local textbook committees who are responsible for studying and selecting textbooks and learning systems for use in Texas school districts. The State Board of Education has approved all the listed textbooks, but it does not recommend specific books. Rather, general criteria…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Guidelines
Templer, Lois – 1982
Cloze tests assess the readability of a book for students in a far more personal way than formulas or standardized tests of reading comprehension. The cloze procedure reflects the total language abilities in the following ways: familiarity with sentence structure, context clues, and vocabulary, and the ability to draw inferences from written…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Language Aptitude, Readability
Atwood, Beth S. – 1977
Designed to alert adult basic education teachers to the factors of readability and to suggest ways that some readability problems can be alleviated, this resource unit discusses the problems posed by readability formulas and suggests that teachers must both press for more readable adult texts and question intelligently the products of publishers…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Readability, Readability Formulas
Bryan, Robert – 1984
American schools use history textbooks that distort history by slighting the influence of religion on customs and institutions. The textbooks used in Montgomery County, Maryland--a highly regarded district--may be considered a sample of those used in the nation's best schools. Yet among these texts there is a remarkable consensus that, after 1700,…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, History Textbooks, Public Schools, Religious Factors
Ochola, Joel Aduma – 1983
This study was designed to find out how far suggested textbooks have been adopted in teaching a new chemistry syllabus in Kenya and if the chemistry books now being used in schools to teach the new syllabus involve activity and encourage the process of scientific inquiry. The new syllabus is a merger between the traditional separate chemistry…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Inquiry
Green, Judith, Ed. – 1983
This collection of scholarly papers by the members of the New York State Association of Two Year Colleges is designed as a forum for the exchange of experiences and achievements among two-year college professionals in the state. Part I presents the following articles: "Successful English Remediation at the Community College Level," by…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Counseling
Coursen, David – 1977
The author begins by noting that if morality depends on how one sees the world, everything that teaches about the world is ultimately a moral question. A number of examples of conflict in textbook selection act as illustrations of moral issues in education--the controversy in Kanawha County, West Virginia; the controversy over evolution and…
Descriptors: Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Moral Issues
Kuhs, Therese M.; Freeman, Donald J. – 1979
The research reported in this paper identifies the "core curriculum" and "optional curriculum" suggested by widely used textbooks of elementary school mathematics and describes the influence of each on teacher autonomy in selecting the content of instruction. Preliminary analyses suggest that the "core curriculum" is generally consistent with…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Core Curriculum, Course Content, Decision Making
Allen, David; Bowers, William K. – 1974
The report documents the results of a national survey of book publishing firms and aviation maintenance technician schools to (1) identify the text materials used in the training of aviation mechanics; (2) appraise the suitability and availability of identified text materials; and (3) determine the adequacy of the text materials in meeting the…
Descriptors: Aviation Mechanics, Aviation Technology, Curriculum Development, Evaluation Methods
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 1972
The target population of this project consists of students enrolled in four regional vocational education centers which serve selected students who desire to receive enriched and specialized vocational education during the 11th and 12th years of public school. The project goals for the first year related to identification of students' reading…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Program Evaluation, Readability, Reading Ability
National Committee for Citizens in Education, Columbia, MD. – 1974
This paper is intended to be a guide for constructive and helpful participation by parents and citizens in inquiry about and involvement in the selection of educational materials. The paper argues for a systematic, step-by-step selection process, sensitive to local needs and concerned with high quality materials that should be divided into (1)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Citizen Participation, Evaluation Criteria, Instructional Materials
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
