Indonesian government provides both national schools and international with different English exposures language uses that are implemented in the textbooks. Considering importance of understanding implicature for students, it needs to be investigated what type textbook has sufficient resources students� learning. Nevertheless, there is a small number previous researchers consider comparing text...

This study investigated the balance and emphasis of scientific literacy themes in Zambian high school physics course in an attempt to find out its potential of contributing to preparation of scientifically literate citizens. Results show that the national syllabus and examinations emphasized the investigative nature of science while textbooks placed most emphasis on basic knowledge of science. ...

AIM To investigate whether the introduction of a vertical subject on research in biomedicine and founding of The Cochrane Collaboration branch at the University of Split School of Medicine influenced students' knowledge and attitudes toward evidence-based medicine (EBM), including the use of research literature. METHODS We used a 26-item questionnaire on EBM knowledge and attitudes to survey ...

The purposes of this study were to compare the differences in the use of geometry in elementary school mathematics textbooks among Finland, Mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, and the USA and to investigate the relationships between the design of the textbooks and students’ performance on large-scale tests such as TIMSS-4 geometry, TIMSS-8 geometry, and PISA space and shape. The content analysis...

This paper discusses the first-hand experiences of the author in developing and teaching courses in neural networks, evolutionary computing and fuzzy logic. While these courses are offered at the graduate level in a school of engineering, they have attracted a variety of students from many engineering disciplines, from medical studies, from business school, from mathematics and statistics, and ...

Abstract Students need to create mental models for different types of addition and subtraction situations in order develop a broad viable understanding these operations. Although most students succeed when changing or combining sets, that demand quantitative comparison sets seem considerably more difficult the first school year. Textbooks represent important learning resource elementary mathema...

Event timeline serves as the basic structure of history, and it is used as a disposition of key phenomena in studying history as a subject in secondary school. In order to enable a student to understand a historical phenomenon as a series of connected events, we present a system for automatic event timeline generation from history textbooks. Additionally, we propose Message Sequence Chart (MSC)...