For example, one conclusion from the new research is that the choice of instructional materials — textbooks, curriculum guides, homework, quizzes — can affect achievement as profoundly as teachers themselves; a poor choice of materials is at least as bad as a terrible teacher, and a good choice can help offset a bad teacher's deficiencies.
The Trauma Secretariat must expand (and therefore strengthen) EMT training beyond establishing standards and publishing training materials (textbooks and DVDs).
But it is far more difficult to get people to make a long-term commitment to provide the resources that actually make a school work: course materials, textbooks, equipment and, of course, teachers' salaries.
The fund responds to numerous shortages of teaching and learning materials, textbooks and supplies in schools.
Recent assessments have revealed serious shortages of learning materials, textbooks and supplies in schools.
Steps were taken to ensure as much group equivalence as possible among the four treatment groups (i.e., identical classrooms, laboratory materials, textbooks, resources, curriculum, and expected learning outcomes).
In Thailand, where most schools reopened on January 4, UNICEF is supplying children from the affected coastal provinces with cooking utensils, school materials, textbooks, uniforms, playground and sports equipment, and is also supporting the construction of temporary schools.
In other words, these standardized tests use the instructional material, textbooks and all, to develop test questions.
The material is textbook stuff: Bauhaus and a dogmatic Swiss bloke called Le Corbusier, Braun and a "young idealist" called Dieter Rams, Charles and Ray Eames, right up to Apple and personalised computing.
Many courses put all materials -- textbook excerpts, articles, syllabuses -- online.
She is an author, along with her father, of "Counterterrorism Law: Cases and Materials," a textbook.
