29 JUNE 2012 VOL 336 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org T he topic of earthquakes appears in virtually all introductory undergraduate geoscience courses. Most students entering these courses already have some knowledge of earthquakes and why they occur, but that knowledge often derives from the most recent event in the news and can therefore be biased toward the most destructive earthquakes (1). In add...

health education in schools is one of the most effective ways of promoting health in a society. studies have shown the effectiveness of health interventions aimed at improving students' knowledge, attitude, and behaviors about health issues. the aim of this study was to evaluate health issues in primary school textbooks in iran.in school year 2010-2011, the contents of all primary school textbo...

purpose: to investigate the factors affecting communicational skills of regimental commanders toward conscripts at an army introductory military training center in tehran. materials and methods: the participants were 82 regimental commanders of the regiments and battalions of an introductory military training center. a 21-item questionnaire was used to collect the required data. descriptive and...

Language learning and teaching (LLT) materials—like teacher-created handouts, textbooks, overhead transparencies—are central elements of language classrooms worldwide. Nonetheless, how students teachers actually engage with deploy LLT materials has rarely been the focus research. In response, this issue offers first compilation classroom-based studies ‘materials use’ in education includes resea...

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Education and textbooks have traditionally been standard objects of research in the history of science, technology, and medicine. However, they have often remained marginal in the formulation of large historiographical questions. In the last decades, the work of some historians of science has challenged this state of affairs. STEP has promoted a distinctive focus on education and textbooks, com...

ABSTRACT Critical decolonial assessments of International Political Economy (IPE) curricula have found a continued dominance Euro-Western perspectives. However, these critical often been specific programs or courses. In this article, we open the canvas wider in our quantitative assessment privilege and marginalization, by conducting an analysis IPE from universities around world as well one mos...

Electronic books traditionally haven’t been popular with the public but electronic textbooks have been starting to gain traction on college campuses. Textbook publishers and faculty have been experimenting with using them in the classroom with mixed success. Students seem less than enamored with electronic textbooks. This research uses a survey to examine student preferences regarding paper tex...