High textbook prices hurt students in more ways than just their pocketbook. It’s common knowledge that college textbook prices are high. We hear it from students, from some faculty, and from advocacy groups. Prices have been rising well past inflation. And it’s not just that students have to shell out a few more dollars. Having to …
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Testing has a bad rap. And for good reason. For one, many see the standardized testing in our primary schools as unbeneficial to our students and a poor measure of our kids. Teachers may teach to the test versus teaching for learning and growth. Secondly, testing can be seen merely as a dipstick of how …
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The Babson Survey Research Group has surveyed faculty over the past few years about the factors they use in choosing textbooks. “Comprehensive content” and “Price” are the top factors faculty use to choose their textbooks, according to Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2017. In the previous edition of Opening the Textbook, …
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We are at the annual Conference on College Composition & Communication in Kansas City, Missouri this week having fun. If you are here with us, make sure to come and see us. We are at booth 120.
There are statistics that show the different trends of college textbooks throughout the web, but they are spread out. We have put them together in one list for you. The list covers: faculty and their use and choosing of textbooks students and their use (or not use) of textbooks along with their buying habits the …
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