Textbook Resources Research Articles

Promoting teaching improvement in elementary mathematics: A case with inverse relations

In this study, we examine two U.S. elementary teachers’ use of worked examples, representations, and deep questions in elementary mathematics lessons both before and after a project intervention designed to promote teaching improvement. This intervention was guided by a cognitive construct containing these three aspects, which were demonstrated via cross-cultural video lessons of both U.S. and Chinese teachers. We specifically analyze two teachers (Ann and Bea) who taught first-grade lessons on the topic of inverse relations. Although their lessons were rated similarly in year 1, the rating of their lessons in year 4, post-intervention, demonstrated different patterns of change. While Ann's use of worked examples and representations underwent no significant improvement, Bea spent more time unpacking a single worked example with a representational sequence fading from concrete to abstract (also called “concreteness fading”). Neither teacher showed improvement in asking deep questions. An analysis of the teachers’ responses to the project intervention revealed that their video noticing skills and personal takeaways were related to the areas of teaching where they improved. Other factors such as teachers’ prior knowledge, beliefs, and textbook resources, also played a role in teaching changes. These findings shed light on a recent endeavor called the “science of improvement” in mathematics teaching, which seeks to document teaching changes and the underlying mechanisms that might induce these changes. Implications for both research and practice are discussed.

NEEDS ANALYSIS: HOTEL RECEPTIONISTS’ USE OF ENGLISH

Needs analysis is critical in the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) development of teaching and learning because it decides learners' goals, needs, or deficiencies in the environmental situation. Learners are often taught and led in educational practices by textbooks authored by native speakers Ministry of Education and Training (MOET, 2008). However, Vietnam received a record of over 18 million of international arrivals in 2019 arrivals (VNAT, 2022). An analysis must evaluate real-life conditions to find difficulties met when working as a hotel receptionist. This research looks at the lives of eighteen hotel receptionists in Can Tho, Vietnam. A quantitative approach is used in this research to find out in what ways hotel receptionists use their positions and the obstacles they experience on the job. The study results show that hotel receptionists employ four skills, but speaking and listening are significantly more critical in this sector. Furthermore, hotel receptionists need help with these abilities when speaking with non-native visitors. The findings imply that, besides textbook resources, educators and curriculum designers could include distinct accents from non-native English speakers into a curriculum for ESP learners. Practical markets, particularly in Asia, now have implications for real-world tourism development practices.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0225/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Instrument for evaluating historical resources in mathematics textbooks

The article describes an instrument consisting of 46 indicators organised under 10 dimensions to assess the presence and educational utility of historical resources in secondary education mathematics textbooks. The instrument was constructed on the basis of previous research on the didactic use of the history of mathematics, existing instruments on the analysis of mathematics textbooks, and mathematics teachers’ assessments of the suitability of the indicators. The instrument can be used as a stand-alone tool or integrated into other procedures addressing textbook analysis more broadly. Its application is illustrated with a sample comparison of two secondary level mathematics textbooks. The instrument has proven to be a useful tool for comparing the historical resources in different publishers’ textbooks, for it enables secondary school mathematics teachers to base their choice of resources on an appraisal of the indicators most relevant to classroom teaching.

Opportunities and Challenges of Digitalization of Educational Publishing Industry in Post-epidemic Era

With the development of information technology, the Internet has gradually become the basis for human information dissemination. The emergence of this new information dissemination and communication tool not only provides convenience and efficiency for modern educational publishing, but also rapidly and strongly changes the industrial structure and development logic of the educational publishing industry. The sudden lockdown brought about by the COVID-19 epidemic has gradually transformed education from offline to online, which has accelerated the digitalization of the education publishing industry. In the post-epidemic era, how to improve digital textbook resources, how to provide educational content supply from multiple dimensions, and how to establish a new future-oriented educational publishing system are all issues that the education publishing industry needs to think about in the process of digitization.

Evaluating and Exploring the Effectiveness of Journalism and Communication Discipline Construction in the Context of Smart Era

In today’s intelligent era, the talent training mode of traditional journalism and communication discipline cannot keep up with the pace of the times. Under the background of intelligent era, the cultivation of compound talents in journalism and communication discipline is not only in line with the direction of education reform in journalism and communication discipline, but also in line with the objective requirements of economic and social development. Based on this, this paper puts forward three suggestions: improve the discipline layout of “smart age + journalism and communication discipline” and strengthen professional construction; enrich the textbook resources in the era of wisdom and promote smart teaching.

A Research on the Construction and Development of “Loose-Leaf” Textbook Resources for Accounting Majors

In recent years, the “order-based” talent training model has been integrated into vocational education, and the bridge that effectively supports school-enterprise cooperation is the textbooks co-edited by both parties. Due to the particularity of the accounting profession, changes in relevant systems often affect its textbooks, which mandate updating in real time. Its traditional teaching materials lack flexibility, with a relatively fixed knowledge structure, and making flexible adjustments pose a challenge. There is a gap between the accounting talents nurtured under the background of the information age and the market demand. The new loose-leaf textbooks help students realize the transfer of professional knowledge and skills, as well as reflect the value of textbooks for the characteristic development of vocational colleges. This study first sorts out relevant research results of both local and foreign scholars, analyzes the relationship between the three reforms of teaching and the construction of loose-leaf textbooks, and finally puts forward ideas for the construction and development of loose-leaf textbook resources.

Diversified Integration and Integrated Application of Ideological and Political Teaching Resources Based on Artificial Intelligence Model Algorithm

In today’s society, China’s social market continues to develop, which has caused the whole society to attach great importance to the professional ethics of Chinese citizens and put forward new requirements and expectations for it. This paper aims to research and discuss the diversified integration and integrated application of ideological and political teaching resources based on artificial intelligence model algorithms. This paper first analyzes and discusses the feasibility of the integration and application of moral education resources in ideological and political textbooks. Political classrooms provide favorable support for the integration and application of moral education resources, and political classrooms have become a practical carrier for the integration and application of moral education resources. And then it introduces the artificial intelligence model algorithm-artificial neural network algorithm. Artificial intelligence is a new intelligent machine that can make intelligent responses similar to human actions according to human actions. Finally, it studies the use of social teaching resources for ideological and political education in city A and conducts a comprehensive analysis on the integration and utilization of moral education teaching resources for ideological and political courses in colleges and universities. In the survey of “Whether the introduction of local social resources in the political class of city A is helpful to students’ learning,” 84 teachers thought it was very helpful, 12 teachers thought it was helpful, and only 3 teachers thought it was not helpful. It can be found that most teachers think that it is helpful for students to introduce social resources in political lessons. At the same time, in order to better improve the reliability and validity of moral resources and to internalize social moral norms into students’ hearts, it is only by combining moral resources with students’ moral growth.

Exploration and Application of Life Education Resources in High School English Textbooks

Nowadays, life education is widely emphasized to cultivate students' healthy psychology, good morals and optimistic attitude towards life. As English is a humanistic subject which emphasizes nurturing people, English textbooks contain a sea of contents of life education. Therefore, this study aims at exploring the strategies for permeating life education into English teaching by analyzing the proportion and distribution of the contents related to life education in the compulsory course of English teaching textbooks for senior high schools. According to the results, there are a host of life education resources in textbooks, but the proportion and distribution of the contents of life education are not balanced. Therefore, this paper proposes that English teachers should further extent the original materials of life education in English textbooks to cover all categories of life education, create life-oriented teaching situation to arouse life thinking, develop extracurricular activities to cultivate life skills and collect other resources related to life educational to supplement the contents of life education in textbooks.

Research on problems of engineering textbooks construction for applied undergraduates

Textbooks are the carriers of knowledge, and superior textbooks are the key factors for universities and colleges to carry out high-quality teaching activities. There are significant differences between applied undergraduate and traditional undergraduate in engineering education. From the aspects of content and system, engineering application, novelty, and textbook resources, the problems and their causes of the current engineering textbooks for applied colleges are analyzed in this paper. Only by fully recognizing the defects of existing textbooks in the use process, can we contrapuntally adjust their construction path, innovate the writing style and form, and the role of textbooks can be better played in talent training.

Research on the Application of Local Cultural Resources into Ideological and Political Teaching in Junior Middle School in the New Era

The high-quality implementation of ideological and political teaching is inseparable from the effective utilization of social resources. Flexible, reasonable and effective development and utilization of local social resources can not only enrich the teaching content, help students improve their understanding of textbook knowledge, but also help to achieve the educational goal of "building morality and cultivating people", and broaden the way to cultivate students' core literacy and ability. It is an unshirkable responsibility and mission to infiltrate local cultural resources in ideological and political teaching in junior middle school. The acquisition of knowledge needs to be based on real situational experience. Therefore, fully excavating textbook resources, carefully selecting situational types, designing situational problems, allowing students to render emotions in situations and enhancing rational thinking in perceptual experience are effective ways to implement red education in ideological and political courses in junior middle school.

Veteran Competencies in Nursing Textbooks: Implications for Educators.

The aim of this study was to examine the adequacy of military/veteran-related content in nursing textbooks used in prelicensure programs. With increased numbers of veterans receiving care in civilian settings, nurses may lack essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes outlined in competencies required to provide culturally sensitive veteran-centered care. One explanation for this may be inadequate preparation during prelicensure nursing education. A quantitative, descriptive study guided the analysis and rating of 32 key words in 24 textbooks across eight content areas. Key words were included in most textbooks but frequently not connected to military service or veterans. The key word with the highest mean rating was posttraumatic stress disorder; the highest rated content area was psychiatric/mental health. With limited textbook resources, nurse faculty must engage in deliberate efforts to include veteran content in nursing curricula. As competency-based education trends evolve, these findings are relevant and should be considered in curricular design and revision.

Make college students, faculty members aware of accessible textbook resources

Yearly, there are millions of new books printed and made available in digital formats, yet fewer than 10% of the books are made accessible to the nearly 300 million people around the world who are blind or have visual impairments. This figure includes thousands of college students, many in developing countries, who continue to struggle with access to accessible college textbooks. However, several free resources not only help institutional disability services offices but also college students with disabilities to locate accessible textbooks and facilitate a smoother learning experience.

Survey on the current situation of teaching spoken Chinese as a foreign language in Kazakhstan: a case study of the international Kazakh-Chinese language college in Almaty

Oral communicative competence is the core ability for second language learners to conduct daily communication. In order to get close to the current situation of spoken Chinese teaching in the classrooms of indigenous Kazakhstan people, this survey takes the Chinese classroom of the International Kazakh-Chinese Language College as a case study. Mainly using interviews and naturalistic observation of classroom, this study examined not only the teaching practices but also the concepts and attitudes of the teachers and students in the school regarding the teaching of spoken Chinese and the development of oral communicative competence. The paper discussed several defects of the spoken Chinese teaching in the school in four dimensions: teacher quality, textbook resources, teaching methods, as well as testing and assessment. According to the general situation of Chinese language teaching in Kazakhstan, the reasons for these problems are analyzed in the context and suggestions for improvement are put forward. Key words: Kazakhstan, Chinese language, oral teaching in classroom

The fullness of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTs) in Applied Science Textbooks of Vocational Schools

Textbooks as a dominant learning source of HOTs have not been fulfilled which can influence the growth of HOTs in vocational students. Mix method explanatory HOT HOT design starting from the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by qualitative data collection and analysis that builds on the initial results of the quantitative data. Analysis of the fulfillment of HOTs Indicators in Vocational High School Applied Science learning about “Material and its Changes” in BC 3.6 and 4 (four) Indicators and BC.4.6. with the percentage of cognitive level HOTs still at the level of analyzing (C4) of 62.9%, the level of evaluating (C5) of 14.3%, and the level of creating (C6) of 22.9%. The next 112 descriptors of the assessment component are based on 14 indicators and 8 Indicators HOTs, 21 material items, 9 self-ability tests, 20 Multiple Choice competency test questions, and 5 essay questions. With the recapitulation results of HOTs fulfillment of 30.4% high criteria, 42.9% medium criteria, and 26.8% low criteria. The fullness of HOTs Indicator by 50.7% in the study of the Applied Science Textbook of Vocational School/MAK Class X Semester I in KD.3.6 Analyzing the Material and its Changes and BC. 4.6 Conducting Experiments on Material Change and Mixed Separation. HOTs are difficult to identify in a short time because they are not instant, but can be identified through a series of HOTs activities by determining learning resources in textbooks and appropriate learning settings for developing high-level thinking habits.

Teaching Animal Genetics and Breeding: What are the resources available to instructors?

The dynamism of education requires that teaching and learning follow suit. The globalization of education community has made materials for teaching and learning easily accessible but sometimes being aware that these resources exist is challenging. The present resource manual attempts to address this by highlighting some of the teaching and learning resources that are available to the instructor in animal genetics and breeding. The availability of the Internet has improved the access to teaching resources that will be of assistance to teachers and learners. Taking cognizance of this rich resource, a teaching resource portfolio relevant to the animal genetics and breeding has been developed. The portfolio includes some textbook resources for improvement of general teaching skills and course development; educational visual resources such as videos and internet sites: publishing companies that provide teaching texts as well as ancillary teaching resources; some journals relevant to animal genetics and breeding; and brief descriptions of the items contained in the portfolio. Some recommended articles focusing specifically on current issues in teaching that facilitate the process of learning for students as it may pertain to the animal genetics and breeding classroom as well as online sites of relevant humor content resources are provided. As such, this teaching resource manual is timely in providing instructors in animal genetics and breeding with the links to important teaching resources.

Visualization, Interaction and Analysis of Heterogeneous Textbook Resources

Historically grown research projects, run by researchers with limited understanding of data sustainability, data reusability and standards, often lead to data silos. While the data are very valuable it can not be used by any service except the tool it was prepared for. Over the years, the number of such data graveyards will increase because new projects will always be designed from scratch. In this work we propose a Component Metadata Infrastructure (CMDI)-based approach for data rescue and data reuse, where data are retroactively joined into one repository minimizing the implementation effort of future research projects.

Content analysis of opera related resources in music textbooks(2015 revision) of South Korea

Content analysis of opera related resources in music textbooks(2015 revision) of South Korea

CMDIfication process for textbook resources

Interoperability between heterogeneous resources and services is the key to a correctly functioning digital infrastructure, which can provide shared resources at once. We analyse the establishment of a standardised common infrastructure covering metadata, content, and inferred knowledge to allow collaborative work between researchers in the humanities. In this paper, we discuss how to provide a CMDI (Component MetaData Infrastructure) profile for textbooks, in order to integrate it into the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) and thus to make the data available in an open way and according to the FAIR principles. We focus on the 'CMDIfication' process, which fulfils the needs of our related projects. We describe a process of building resources using CMDI description from Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) and Dublin Core (DC) metadata, testing it on the textbook resources of the Georg Eckert Institute (GEI).

CMDIfication process for textbook resources

Interoperability between heterogeneous resources and services is the key to a correctly functioning digital infrastructure, which can provide shared resources at once. We analyse the establishment of a standardised common infrastructure covering metadata, content, and inferred knowledge to allow collaborative work between researchers in the humanities. In this paper, we discuss how to provide a CMDI (Component MetaData Infrastructure) profile for textbooks, in order to integrate it into the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) and thus to make the data available in an open way and according to the FAIR principles. We focus on the 'CMDIfication' process, which fulfils the needs of our related projects. We describe a process of building resources using CMDI description from Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) and Dublin Core (DC) metadata, testing it on the textbook resources of the Georg Eckert Institute (GEI).

“They Like Things That Move”: Exploring Student Preferences for Presentation of Online Textbook Resources in Religious Education in Australian Catholic schools

This paper examines student perceptions on use and delivery of online resources in religious education. It examines student responses to one series of religious education resources widely used in Australian Catholic Schools. Data was collected using school based religious education leaders to ask students about their opinions and preferences on delivery of online material. Major findings include: the need to present text in small manageable sections that clearly identified key concepts; the desirability of interactive and engaging presentations of material; utilizing images and narratives as a way of presenting complex information; the need to make decisions about the amount of material to be presented as text. These results were discussed within a conceptual framework of seeing effective online resources as contributing to reducing cognitive load for students in religious education.