The home page of the Algebra Textbooks Report has six navigation
buttons on the left-hand side of the screen plus a Home key.
Place the cursor over
a navigation button to see an explanation of that component in the
form of a tooltip ()
or a status bar message (,
). To open any
of the components, click on the appropriate navigation button. You
can return to the title page at any time by clicking the Home button.
BROWSE EVALUATIONS
Click the Browse Evaluations
button to browse analysis data for each of the 12 mathematics textbooks.
A list of all the books will appear. To select a book, click on
the title.
For each book, the following
eight data sets will appear:
Click on the Information
about the eight data sets icon below the book title to see a
brief explanation of the information in each data set. Click on
the underlined titles or use the drop-down menus to access the information.
For a complete discussion
of the information and how to use the data to choose or supplement
curriculum materials, click the Applying the Results navigation
button on the left-hand side of the screen.
The Typical Sightings
charts are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The Graphs can
be viewed or printed as PDFs by clicking on "View/Print PDF
Version" in the bottom left-hand corner of each graph screen.
To adjust your view in a PDF file, select the zoom-in tool in the
tool bar at the top of the screen. For more precise zooming, trace
a rectangle around an area by dragging the zoom-in tool. Click on
the magnification button in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen
to select a percentage magnification. Adjust the page view anytime
by clicking on one of the page view buttons in the tool bar at the
top of the screen.
COMPARE DATA
Click the Compare
Data navigation button to view two different data sets at the
same time (a) from the same book or (b) from two different books.
Choose two different textbooks or the same textbook by using the
drop-down menus on either side of the screen. The Content Analyses,
Instructional Analyses, and Graphs for all 12 textbooks can be viewed
side by side.
(a)
(b)