Creating practice questions for programming learning is not easy. It requires the instructor to diligently organize heterogeneous resources, i.e., conceptual concepts and procedural rules. Today’s question generation (PQG) still largely replying on demanding creation task performed by instructors without advanced technological support. In this work, we propose a semantic PQG model that aims hel...

We conducted studies to determine whether introducing an interactive textbook into introductory STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) courses can improve student grades. An interactive textbook has substantially less text than a traditional textbook, instead having numerous embedded question sets designed for learning and not quizzing, numerous animations of key concepts, and some built...

The initial edition of this book was published in 1974, as one of the first textbooks that tried to teach modern biochemistry with a clinical perspective. The recently revised fifth edition continues to be one of the few textbooks in biochemistry that focuses primarily on clinical aspects of biochemistry and thus remains a useful book for health science students. Interestingly, the first chapte...

We begin with a review of the basic molecules responsible for the functioning of all organisms' cells. Much of the material here comes from the introductory textbooks by Drlica [2], Lewin [4], and Watson et al. [8]. Later in the course, when we discuss the computational aspects of molecular biology, some useful textbooks will be those by Gusfield [3], Salzberg et al. What sorts of molecules per...

This study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used ELT textbooks, three British and three American. Applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (CDA), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. Results suggest that in terms of content, British textbooks tend to entertain the students while...

Textbooks play a very crucial role in the process of language teaching and learning. The present study carries out an evaluation of two series of ELT textbooks used for teaching English language in Iranian high schools since 1970 to 2010. For this purpose, Tucker’s (1975) textbook evaluation model (see Appendix) has been employed. The results suggest that one of the main factors for the student...

Current textbooks are believed to provide an updated knowledge. Medical students usually read the textbooks but not the literature that contain the original research articles and reviews. Here, we examined the gap between the current textbooks and literature with the enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells as an example. A total of 70 textbooks that were published for medical education during the las...

Content Analysis of the High School Textbooks in Iran from Information Literacy Perspective E. Ebraahimi Dorcheh M. Cheshmeh Sohraabi, Ph.D. M. R. Neyestaani, Ph.D. To determine the extent to which information literacy is utilized within the 10th grade textbooks across different disciplines, a sample of 19 textbooks from among 96 high school textbooks was selected. The instr...

Recent fMRI and fTCD studies have found that functional modules for aspects of language, praxis, visuo-spatial functioning, while typically left, left right hemispheric respectively, frequently show atypical lateralisation. Studies with increasing numbers participants are finding module combinations, which here termed cerebral polymorphisms—qualitatively different lateral organisations cognitiv...