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)

Outlines some procedures for the sensible selection of educational books, products, and other materials for the English classroom. (DD)

The authors teach upper-level science courses in cell biology, genetics, and biochemistry at a public, four-year "community university" that serves a demographically diverse population of traditional and nontraditional students. In this article, they describe some of the issues they have found to be particularly significant at their "community…

Passages from three selected samples of textbooks are used to show what requirements are made of textbooks in the social sciences. Some hints are given to the teacher for converting reading suggestions into instructional material. Short texts from Karl Marx are also suggested. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Textbooks have more influence than teachers in shaping the curriculum. They set objectives, daily lessons and activities, and influence test questions. Since the text is often the determinant of a course of study, the selection of a text can be a critical task. Consequently, an instrument for measuring the strengths and weaknesses of textbooks is…

Provides a guide for selecting/evaluating textbooks for courses on marriage and family topics. Applies these guidelines to 13 introductory level textbooks published between 1984 and 1986. (JDH)

Provides guidelines for evaluation in textbook selection. (MD)

Using short-term pilot programs to evaluate textbooks can lead to unreliable results and interfere with effective education. Alternative methods for evaluating textbook-based programs include obtaining documented analyses of competitors' products from sales agents, visiting districts using programs being considered, and examining publishers' own…

A textbook evaluation worksheet is given. The form rates the following areas: authorship, readability, physical features, graphics, content, book parts, skills and activities, and teacher's manual. (SK)

Describes one method of responding to the sales techniques of college textbook publishers' representatives. (AEA)

Describes the work of Mel and Norma Gabler and their campaign against what they have determined are "improper" textbooks. (IRT)