Thinking Levels of Questions in Christian Reading Textbooks

If Christian schools desire students to achieve higher-level thinking, then the textbooks that teachers use should reflect such thinking. Using Risner's ( 1987 ) methodology, raters classified questions from two Christian publishers' fifth grade reading textbooks based on the revised Bloom...

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