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Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. – 1968
Intended as an aid in the development of grade 13 Spanish programs, this curriculum guide reviews fundamental instructional objectives of the course and provides a suggested book list. Included in the list are works on: (1) literature anthologies, (2) drama, (3) short stories, (4) novels, and (5) reference materials--dictionaries, grammars,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Culture, Curriculum Guides, Dictionaries
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 1971
This second report on American History textbooks used in Michigan schools is divided into three sections: 1) background information of the 1968, ED 032 369 survey; 2) a description of the 1970-71 study; and, 3) conclusions and alternative actions being considered by the State Board of Education. A survey was conducted to determine impact of the…
Descriptors: American History, Bias, Ethnic Studies, Evaluation Criteria
Graveel, John G.; Fribourg, Henry A. – Journal of Agronomic Education, 1987
Reported is a study designed to determine whether reading grade level (RGL) assessment techniques used for elementary and secondary education textbooks would discriminate among plant and soil science textbooks. The study was to select the RGL indices suited to quantify the readability of these sources, and to identify the factors affecting…
Descriptors: Agronomy, College Science, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
Breiter, Joan M. – Southern Social Studies Quarterly, 1988
Surveys the content of 13 elementary social studies methods texts published between 1981 and 1988. Disregarding quality or length of coverage, Breiter identifies common topics in social studies methods texts as well as social/controversial issues and skills coverage. Suggests how this information might be used in text selection or course renewal…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Elementary Education, Higher Education, Methods Courses

Dick, John A. R. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Reviews over 50 textbooks grouped into three categories: (1) workbooks; (2) sentence style books, most of which use sentence combining as the fundamental type of exercise; and (3) copy books, which are used by directly copying passages with signals for particular changes. (EL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Course Evaluation, Grammar, Higher Education
Kilickaya, Ferit – Online Submission, 2004
EFL teachers need to be careful in their decision on the selection of cultural content for ELT classrooms. To address the issue, this paper investigates the design guidelines to evaluate textbooks as sources of cultural content in the ELT curriculum. The paper is organized in two parts. In the first part, the notion of culture and the important…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content, Cultural Awareness
Bahry, Stephen A, – European Educational Research Journal, 2005
For newly independent Central Asian republics a debate has arisen about how much of the aims, content and pedagogy of old Soviet-era curricula to retain, how much to revise or replace, and with what. There is a need to replace and revise textbooks, which are wearing out and outdated. Financial crisis has made the financial support of external…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Donors, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Dutt, Karen M.; And Others – 1995
This study at a midwestern, private, liberal arts college compared undergraduate student reactions in an educational psychology course between students whose reading assignments were in a conventional textbook vs. those of students whose reading assignments made use of primary sources, such as original research or case studies. At the end of each…
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Design, Educational Psychology, Higher Education
Italiano, Graciela; Rounds, Patricia – 1993
Resources and strategies for teachers, administrators, and curriculum specialists working in K-12 English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs are presented in this handbook. The book is designed to provide information on the background of ESL programs as well as current information on publications, standards, and special materials. Contents are…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education
Murk, Peter J.; Ross, Jovita M. – 1988
The purpose of a review of course materials and teaching methods in the area of adult development and learning was to identify commonalities that existed in course titles, objectives, content areas, texts, required reading, resources used, course requirements, and instructional processes. Thirty-two course syllabi and 1 curriculum guide from 24…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Content Analysis
Dole, Janice A.; And Others – 1986
Commercially developed basal reading programs are used in most elementary school classrooms in the United States. Yet often neither the publishers developing these programs nor the members of textbook adoption committees selecting programs are able to take advantage of the best available knowledge about the reading process and reading instruction.…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Guidelines
Woodward, Arthur – 1985
To determine how textbook publishers have changed the content of teachers' manuals designed to accompany basal reading series, a study was undertaken to examine manuals published by two different publishers since the l920s. Ten fifth grade manuals were reviewed for physical characteristics, tests, number of stories, instructional suggestions,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Educational History, Elementary Education
LaPaglia, Nancy – 1988
A major problem in any remedial course is finding a valid textbook that underprepared students can read. At Daley College, in Illinois, "Classics of Children's Literature" (Griffeth and Frey, editors) is used as the text in Humanities 100, one of several remedial courses offered for college credit to help students meet full-time eligibility…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Community Colleges, Course Content
Flood, James, Ed. – 1984
Designed to present a historical account of instructional approaches to the teaching of comprehension as well as insights into effective approaches for the present and the future, this collection of papers is divided into three parts, concerned respectively with: (1) instructional research in reading comprehension, (2) the reader and the text, and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Literature Reviews
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1987
This working paper is a compilation of articles prepared for the Policy and the Higher Literacies Project. The two-year project examines key leverage points in state and local education policy levels and how they may promote or constrict the acquisition of higher levels of literacy for a much broader range of American students. Research strongly…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education