@article{education201531116,
author={Katrin, B?lsterli Bardy},
title={Checklist for Competence-Oriented Textbooks in Science},
journal={American Journal of Educational Research},
volume={3},
number={11},
pages={1450--1454},
year={2015},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/3/11/16},
issn={2327-6150},
abstract={Textbooks are crucial tools for implementing new curricula. Consequently, not only teachers¡¯ performance but also good textbooks have to meet certain standards to improve the quality of competence-oriented tuition. However, there are no empirical studies investigating how competence-oriented textbooks may be conceptualized or assessed. This is a major problem as many countries already implemented competence-oriented tuition or plan to do so soon. To reduce this research gap, this study investigates the following research question: Which standards should science textbooks meet in order to support competence-oriented teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools? A mixed-methods design was chosen to answer this question. First, a qualitative survey was used to formulate <i>preliminary standards</i> for competence-oriented textbooks. The participants of this inquiry were experienced teachers, textbook authors, publishers, science educationalists or educational scientists from three German speaking countries. These <i>preliminary</i> <i>standards</i> were validated and served to generate items for the quantitative questionnaire. In this survey, the <i>preliminary standards</i> were weighted according to their importance. In total, 178 primary school teachers (grades 4 to 6), 171 secondary school teachers (grades 7 to 9), and 44 science educationalists from the German speaking part of Switzerland took part. If the relevance of a standard was ambiguous, the standard was also rated qualitatively. These empirically <i>weighted standards</i> were used together with <i>standards individually to be weighted </i>to generate a checklist for <b>C</b>ompetence-<b>O</b>riented <b>T</b><b>EX</b>tbooks (COTEX). In this paper, the English version of the checklist is presented. The checklist is available online under www.schulbuchforschung.ch. COTEX can be used to conceptualize or assess competence-oriented textbooks.},
doi={10.12691/education-3-11-16}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}