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Racism in Finnish School Textbooks: Developments and Discussions
While the Finnish education system has been celebrated for promoting equality, recent reports point to problems concerning racism within Finnish...
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Cognitive Demand of Mathematics Tasks in Nepali Middle School Mathematics Textbooks
We investigated the cognitive demand of the exercise problems that middle school students from Nepal are expected to complete. The middle school...
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Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study
Creating and critiquing explanations of phenomena is a significant goal of many scientific disciplines and therefore also a learning goal of science...
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The Value of the Philosophy of Science in Senior High School Science Education from the Perspective of the Nature of Science
Numerous studies have shown that teaching the history and philosophy of science (POS) can help improve senior high school students’ scientific...
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Identifying and Challenging the Narrow Cognitive Demands of Science Textbooks
Textbooks can act as filters and conduits between educational policies and classroom teaching. This research analyzes the cognitive demands of...
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Russian History School Textbooks, Ideology, and Nation-Building in the Russian Federation
The main aim of this research is to offer a new insight, and knowledge in understanding the nexus between ideology, the state, and...
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Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks
The purpose of this study was to explore instructional designs for promoting inquiry practices in secondary school textbooks. Three criteria were...
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Analysis of Physics Textbooks Through the Lens of Inquiry Practices
The purpose of this study is to analyze the learning goals, nature of science, inquiry skills, understanding of inquiry, and inquiry types in the...
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Teachers’ perceptions and experience of the new dimensions of the revised science textbooks at primary level schools in Quetta city of Pakistan
With the speedy explosion of knowledge and rapidly shifting trends, develo** countries constantly introduce reforms in curriculum and textbooks...
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History of Science Reading Materials as Everyday Homework to Improve Middle School Students’ Epistemological Beliefs about Science
The history of science (HOS) has played an important role in science curricula for teaching about science. However, historical information in science...
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An Analysis of Selected South African Grade 12 Physical Sciences Textbooks for the Inclusion of the NGSS Science Practices
Textbooks remain an important resource in the hands of science teachers in ensuring that curricular aims and educational reforms are realised in...
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Distribution of Visual Representations Across Scientific Genres in Secondary Science Textbooks: Analysing Multimodal Genre Pattern of Verbal-Visual Texts
There is currently a lack of systematic study examining the integration of verbal-visual elements in science textbooks. In particular, few research...
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Gender, sex, and heteronormativity in high school statistics textbooks
Textbooks have a long history of explicitly and implicitly supporting heteronormative ideologies and effectively erasing marginalized populations,...
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Discourses of the Politics of History School Textbooks
This chapter, using critical discourse analysis, provides a new insight into an understanding of the nexus between ideologies, the state, and...
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Examining student, parent, and school factors predicting science achievement using a multilevel approach: the case of Hong Kong from the Program for International Student Assessment 2015
This study utilizes the 2015 data from the Hong Kong sample of the Program for International Student Assessment to examine the relative importance of...
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Skin Color Representation in Ophthalmology Textbooks
ObjectiveInadequate diversity in dermatologic images has been associated with diagnostic delays and poorer health outcomes. This underrepresentation...
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Arithmetic word problem solving. Analysis of Singaporean and Spanish textbooks
The success or failure of education systems in promoting student problem-solving skills depends on attitudinal, political, and pedagogical variables....
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The Contributions of Philosophy of Science in Science Education Research: a Literature Review
The philosophy of science (POS) has gained recognition for its contributions to science education, particularly in integrating the history and...
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An Analysis of Student Skills and Teacher Practices Across Writing Textbooks in Grades 4 and 5
The purpose of this study was to examine the skills and types of instruction present within four commonly used writing textbooks at grades four and...
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Inquiry Process Skills in Primary Science Textbooks: Authors and Publishers’ Intentions
Textbooks play a significant role in education around the world. Although several studies have reported that textbook-led teaching and learning...
