The degree to which Canadian history and social science textbooks inform and sensitize Canadian students to the events of the Holocaust is examined. Evaluated by a panel of independent judges and presented in comparative perspectives, 72 history and social science textbooks authorized for use in Canada's secondary schools were found to have…

The study surveyed colleges to determine what texts were being selected for use in graduate level courses in gifted education. The types and levels of the courses, as well as the reasons for selection of the identified texts, were also determined. A summary of text content plus respondent comments is provided for the most frequently selected…

The textbooks described in this document are written for or widely used in high school psychology courses. To help teachers decide which books to examine more closely, reviews are provided. Complete price and bibliographic information are included for each text, along with a description of accompanying materials, such as instructor's manuals or…

Certain educational objectives are proposed for undergraduate and graduate international studies education, investigating the interrelationship of these objectives and evaluating the appropriateness and adequacy of current texts for such objectives. (Author/KM)

Six high-school Problems of Democracy textbooks were evaluated for their environmental education coverage. The amount of coverage was small relative to 26 possible themes used as criteria in the evaluation. An argument is given for a science and social science interdisciplinary approach for meaningful environmental education. (JP)

This guide to sources useful for assessing critical commentary about textbooks describes 25 education and education-related journals which contain substantial, consistent coverage of textbook reviews. Entries for each identify title, publication frequency, publisher, title of column used for reviews, grade level and subjects covered, format,…

The speaker discusses the establishment of a district policy on the selection of books and the procedures that should be followed if a controversy develops. (IRT)

The validity and the reliability of a technique for identifying and studying presentation variables in mathematics texts were investigated in this study. A category system for classifying messages in mathematics texts in terms of mathematical content and processes and in terms of mode of representation, procedures for applying this system to…

The bidialectal freshman handbook will be the next gimmick of textbook companies, even though they will contain nothing new and will foster several fallacies. The information will be questionable, factually inaccurate and unsound because while no linguist has really been able to define dialect, linguists claim to have knowledge about the structure…

This report builds on the Textbook Report done in 1963 by the American Economic Association (AEA). The "new look" assumes three tasks: 1) to determine whether current texts show improvements; 2) to go beyond minimum type evaluative criteria in the AEA report and develop a standardized economics textbook evaluation procedure; and, 3) to identify…

The author reviews the content; methods of instruction, and philosophy of selected eighteenth and nineteenth century social studies textbooks. Short biographical sketches of well known authors are also included. (DE)

The Mannheim Rating (of teaching texts for German as a foreign language) is criticized from the standpoint of choice of texts considered and for vagueness of criteria. Several of the texts rated "good" are considered from the standpoint of criteria proposed by the writer. (IFS/WGA)

Criticizes the goals stated in the Mannheim Rating (of teaching texts for German as a foreign language) as being vaguely defined, and the criteria as being faultily formulated. Not considered are: text science, learning psychology, and psychology of motivation. Actual classroom teaching experience is insufficiently considered. (IFS/WGA)

Criticizes the Mannheim Ratings (of teaching texts for German as a foreign language) for judging texts for their intrinsic excellence alone, omitting considerations of acceptability to teachers and students. There is no clear statement of teaching goals. However, the ratings are considered valuable for the questions and problems they discuss.…