COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EVALUATION OF MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOK

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
LME 5005 EVALUATION OF MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOK ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Mathematics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AYTEN ERDURAN

Offered to

Mathematics Teacher Education

Course Objective

This course features prospective teachers should be in a textbook, qualifications required to teach mathematics and geometry textbooks and course books on the criteria against which applications will request an investigation and indicates that selection.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. To be able to explain criteria about examining textbooks regarding content area.
2   2. To be able to understand the main structure and the functioning system concerning selection and writing, distribution of books in the Turkish National Education system
3   3. To be able to evaluate textbooks regarding content area accurately.
4   4. To be able to be aware of mathematics textbooks regarding content area.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Book and textbook, a general outlook of mathematics education programs, place of the course book (textbook) in the training programmes
2 Textbook and its importance in education, qualifications of the textbook (physical properties, page setting and page-layout), visual materials in textbooks, supplementary course materials
3 Innovations in textbooks, book selection and criteria used in selecting books, works on textbook in the ministry of education
4 Designing textbooks, assesment and evaluation in textbooks
5 Critique of textbooks, false speech and expression examples in textbooks
6 Inspection methods and criteria for various textbook
7 Course overview, evaluation and midterm exam
8 Textbook analysis (case study)
9 Examining mathematics textbook for Grade 9.
10 Examining mathematics textbook for Grade 10.
11 Examining science college mathematics textbook for Grade 9 and 10.
12 Examining mathematics textbook for Grade 11.
13 Examining mathematics textbook for Grade 12.
14 Examining science college mathematics textbook for Grade 11 and 12.
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Küçükahmet, L. (2004), Konu Alanı Ders Kitabı Inceleme Kılavuzu, Izmir: Nobel Yayın Dağıtım.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion, Question-Answer, Group work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE Midterm Exam
2 DTK Other Activity
3 FN Semester final exam
4 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.30 + Student examDTK * 0.10 + FN * 0.60
5 BUT Make- up note
6 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.30 +Student examDTK * 0.10 + BUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erduranayten@gmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 13 13
Preparation for final exam 1 13 13
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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