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Evaluation of Spelling Textbooks
The Elementary School Journal, 1935The purpose of this article is to present a brief account of the California State Curriculum Commission's recent evaluation of spelling textbooks for the elementary grades. Briefly described, the plan of procedure involved four major steps: (I) the development of a set of criteria by which the books might be judged; (2) the formulation of a score card ...
Ivan R. Waterman, Irving R. Melbo
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Textbook Selection: Evaluative Criteria
Higher Education Research & Development, 1989ABSTRACT As the task of selecting an appropriate textbook for a course is difficult this article presents a procedure (checklist) which instructors might adopt to assist in their decision making. The Textbook Selection Checklist is developed from a strong empirical base and has been trialled to assess the relative merits of introductory and educational
Brian Hemmings, David Battersby
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Textbook Quality Criteria and Evaluation
2018The chapter explains the state of development of assessment methods for the quality of educational media within the general context of the current discourse about educational quality. Several theoretical approaches and the corresponding evaluation designs developed in recent years in different countries are presented and compared in order to outline ...
Fey, Carl-Christian, Matthes, Eva
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Evaluation of Elementary Textbooks
The American Mathematical Monthly, 1971(1971). Evaluation of Elementary Textbooks. The American Mathematical Monthly: Vol. 78, No. 2, pp. 189-191.
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Evaluating introductory programming textbooks
Proceedings of the eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education - SIGCSE '77, 1977My father counseled me not to give advice to others. Inspite of that admonition, I have an irrepressible desire to make some highly subjective, potentially pompous remarks about introductory programming language textbooks. During the past nine years I have evaluated dozens of manuscripts for eight publishers and hundreds of books for teaching
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An Evaluation of History Textbooks
The Journal of Special Education, 1992Textbooks are the most predominant instructional medium used in America today. Recent research indicates that the issue of textbook readability is complex, extending beyond traditional text evaluation based on readability formulas. In this study, 10 eighth-grade texts were evaluated with respect to factors such as global coherence, local coherence ...
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Criteria for Evaluating Reading Textbooks
The Journal of Experimental Education, 1943During the last decade teachers, admin istrators, and research workers in the United States have begun to recognize that junior and senior high schools share with elemen tary schools a definite responsibility for the improvement of reading. This realization has resulted in the development of courses in reading in many American secondary schools ...
David Kopel, John F. O’Connor
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Global Business Textbook Evaluation: Task Types in the Spotlight
, 2021M. Alemi, Amir Ensafi, Atefeh Rezanejad
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Evaluating ELT textbooks and materials
ELT Journal, 1988ELT coursebook publishing is a multi-million pound industry, yet the whole business of product assessment is haphazard and under-researched. Coursebooks are often seen by potential consumers-teachers, learners and educational purchasers-as market ephemera requiring invidious compromises between commercial and pedagogical demands.
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