Are school textbooks misleading?

Misleading statistics: errors in textbooks, software and manuals.

Statistics is an essential tool in medicine in general and in medical research in particular. This is shown by the large number of articles on statistical topics carried by medical journals, by the demand for consultancy from medical statisticians and by the number of textbooks in medical statistics, especially introductory texts, now on the market. Yet, despite this importance and wealth of ad...

Use of Informatics Textbooks in School Classroom

Textbooks are an integral part of school classroom teaching. Their use has been researched for the past few decades with a focus on a wide variety of aspects. This paper is focused on the published literature relative to textbooks with a special focus on the pedagogical use of textbooks within school classroom of informatics. Sixty two papers of various topics related to textbooks have been ana...

High School Textbooks in Turkey from Teachers' and Students' Perspectives: The Case of History Textbooks

This study is part of a three-year-long research project supported by the Turkish Ministry of National Education. The project aims to investigate social studies teaching from many aspects such as curriculum, the teaching and learning process, textbooks and other instructional materials, student assessment, and the impact on students. This paper specifically focuses on the assessment of high sch...

Brexit vote: absolute numbers are misleading.

As political scientists, we are not familiar with the habits of medical journals. In most analyses of voting behaviour it’s common to focus on the relative risk of voting for a party or an outcome: an analysis that focuses on absolute numbers is therefore liable to mislead. If medical journals also tend to focus on relative risks then Dorling’s analysis is also liable to mislead, notwithstandin...

Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks