Sentences with phrase «studies textbooks often»

Isabel L. Beck and Margaret G. McKeown («Questioning the Author: Making Sense of Social Studies») assert that social studies textbooks often lack explanations and connections among ideas and events.

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A study of school textbooks found that the pronouns he, him, and his occurred four times more often than the pronouns she, her, and hers.

One recent study (pdf) found that among a representative sample of U.S. science students, those who said their science teachers had them read textbooks more often had higher test scores.

Textbooks often rely on a 1938 study by Kallman.

In our primary niche (medical education), medical students often must endure academic torture by studying complex medical science concepts through the traditional medium of organized study, including attending boring classes, reading dense textbooks, and practicing thousands of arduous vignettes.

In the Japanese textbook series we often use in Lesson Study work, fractions are introduced in the context of linear measurement, as fractions of a meter.

Substance is too often shallow, case studies are not used often enough, creative use of materials is seldom suggested in the activities section, and perhaps most seriously, textbook content reflects the perspectives of conservative censors — and occasionally liberal ones too.

To pass the comprehensive examination, candidates often spend an average of 1 hour per day studying, reading textbook and journal articles, and taking courses and practice tests.

People who identify birds while they travel are often surprised that the habit causes them to soak in much bigger themes about the world: watching birds inadvertently educates the birding traveler on subjects like geography, habitat and ecology, and in a way that is much more profound than studying the same subjects in textbooks.

Studying through an online course prepares you for the state exam the moment you log in since you are learning only the «highlighted» material, cutting out any extra verbiage often associated with a textbook and time spent in a classroom.