Digital textbooks have been growing popular as a lower-cost and more interactive alternative to paper books. Despite the recent rise in adoption, little is known about how people use these resources. Prior studies have investigated student perceptions of digital textbooks in the classroom via interviews and surveys but have not quantified actual usage patterns. We present, to our knowledge, the...

In computer science, research results have surprisingly little impact on teacher practices [6]. Computer science teachers are influenced by practical concerns. They care about what students say [5]. They care about having textbooks match the curriculum that they want to teach [11]. The hypothesis underlying our CSLearning4U project is that we can improve learning by improving textbooks. By rede...

Authors of this paper carried out a broader international research aimed at assessing the computer science education at upper secondary level of education – ISCED 3A. The assessed school subjects were informatics and programming as the most common school subjects taught at secondary schools within computer sciences. The assessment was based on the students’ evaluations, their points of view and...

We have investigated proof in two sets of commonly used Swedish upper secondary school mathematics textbooks. The frequency of proof items is low in each mathematical topic, even in the domain of geometry where pupils traditionally have learned proof. We explore the proof items with respect to different aspects of proof and discuss how they relate to students’ access to proof. We show with some...

Using government secondary school English language textbooks from Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, we conducted a quantitative content analysis in order to identify gender stereotypes in school education. In total, 21 categories of exclusion and quality of representation were used to study gender stereotypes. Our analysis confirms a pro-male bias in textbooks: the aggregate female ...

Language is embedded in society and culture, and for that matter, learning a foreign language involves learning its culture. This paper is concerned with the inseparability of culture and language in foreign language teaching, arguing that culture introduction is an effective way to promote students’ cultural awareness and language proficiency. Foreign language textbooks are major channels for ...

The readability assessment deals with estimating the level of difficulty in reading texts.Many readability tests, which do not indicate execution efficiency, have been applied on specific texts to measure the reading grade level in science textbooks. In this paper, we analyze the content covered in elementary school Turkish textbooks by employing a distributed parallel processing framework base...