Visuals in History Textbooks

Event Timeline Generation from History Textbooks

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)...

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...

Visuals in Instruction

This study examined the use of screen captures in manuals. Three designs of manuals were compared, one textual and two visual manuals. The two visual manuals differed in the type of screen capture that was used. One had screen captures that showed only the relevant part of the screen, whereas the other consisted of captures of the full screen. All manuals contained exactly the same textual info...

History and National Identity Construction: The Great Famine in Irish and Ukrainian History Textbooks

PowerPoint Visuals in the Humanities

In recent years, PowerPoint presentations have become the medium of choice for high school and college educators. Research on images in these presentations has determined that relevant diagrams and graphics improve learning in science and engineering fields; however, there has been little research on images in the humanities, where diagrams are less common. This study first surveyed college stu...