Instructional materials
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Instructional material, also known as teaching/learning materials (TLM),
Background
The value of instructional materials as a pedagogical aid can be seen in Vachel Lindsay's poem "Euclid":
Old Euclid drew a circle
On a sand-beach, long ago.
He bounded and enclosed it
With angles thus and so.
His set of solemn greybeards
Nodded and argued much
Ofarc and of circumference
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From morning until noon,
Because they drew such charming
Round pictures of the moon.[3]
Types of instructional materials
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Instructional materials can be classified by type, including print, visual, and audiovisual, among others:
Textbooks, pamphlets, handouts, study guides, manuals | |
Audio | Cassettes, microphone, podcast |
Visual | Charts, real objects, photographs, transparencies |
Audiovisual | Slides, tapes, films, filmstrips, television, video, multimedia |
Electronic Interactive | Computers, graphing calculators, tablets |
Evaluation of instructional materials
Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee
The Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee "'promotes and shares peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments.' In doing so, it reviews librarian-created online tutorials dealing with information literacy and critical thinking skills, and highlights the highest-caliber projects through its "Site of the Month" posts on the ACRL Instruction Section blog (http://acrl.ala.org/IS/category/committees/primo)."[4] PRIMO's goal is to provide librarians quality tutorials for instructional use on a variety of topics in order to save time, effort and cost. PRIMO accepts non-promotional online instructional material intended for undergraduate or graduate-level audiences emphasizing quality over comprehensiveness.
Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool
"Student Achievement Partners is a nonprofit organization that assembles educators and researchers to design actions based on evidence that will substantially improve student achievement."
See also
- First Principles of Instruction
- Cognitive load
- Instructional design
- Learning object
- National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard
- Open educational resources
- DoITPoMS
References
- ThoughtCo. Archivedfrom the original on 2018-04-14. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ "What is Instructional Materials". global dictionary. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ Lindsay, Vachel (April–September 1913). "Euclid". In Monroe, Harriet (ed.). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Vol. II. p. 123.
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- ^ Student Achievement Partners (August 21, 2013). "Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool". Achieve the Core. Retrieved July 1, 2018.