Instructional materials

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Instructional '''materials''', also known as '''teaching materials''', '''learning materials''', or '''teaching/learning materials''' ('''TLM'''),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/tlm-teaching-learning-materials-2081658 |title=TLM or Teaching Learning Materials Definition |last=Lewis |first=Beth |date=2018-05-10 |publisher=ThoughtCo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414170042/https://www.thoughtco.com/tlm-teaching-learning-materials-2081658 |archive-date=2018-04-14 |url-status=live |access-date=2019-01-09}}</ref> are any collection of materials including animate and inanimate objects and human and non-human resources that a teacher may use in teaching and learning situations to help achieve desired learning objectives. Instructional materials may aid a student in concretizing a learning experience so as to make learning more exciting, interesting and interactive. They are tools used in instructional activities, which include active learning and assessment.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.igi-global.com/dictionary/relevance-of-the-use-of-instructional-materials-in-teaching-and-pedagogical-delivery/48956 |title=What is [sic] Instructional Materials |work=global dictionary |accessdate=2019-01-09}}</ref> The term encompasses all the materials and physical means an instructor might use to implement instruction and facilitate students achievement of instructional objectives.

== Background == The value of instructional materials as a pedagogical aid can be seen in Vachel Lindsay's poem "Euclid": {{Blockquote |text=<poem>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 Of arc 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.<ref>{{cite book |title=Poetry: A Magazine of Verse |volume=II |date=April–September 1913 |editor1-last=Monroe |editor1-first=Harriet |last=Lindsay |first=Vachel |chapter=Euclid |page=123 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4IcVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123}}</ref></poem>}}

==Types of instructional materials== {{Expand section |date=July 2018}} Instructional materials can be classified by type, including print, visual, and audiovisual, among others:

{|class="wikitable" |- !Print |Textbooks, pamphlets, handouts, study guides, manuals, blackboard and whiteboard |- !Audio |Cassettes, microphones, podcasts, CDs |- !Visual |Charts, real objects, photographs, transparencies |- !Audiovisual |Slides, tapes, films, filmstrips, television, video, multimedia, DVDs |- !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.<ref>https://acrl.ala.org/IS/category/committees/primo</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kaspar |first1=Wendy |last2=Borgerding |first2=Jodie |date=2017 |title=PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online |journal= College & Research Libraries|volume=78 |pages=2–7 |doi=10.5860/crl.78.1.2 |doi-access=free }}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web | title = Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool | last = Student Achievement Partners | date = August 21, 2013 | url = https://achievethecore.org | publisher = Achieve the Core | access-date = July 1, 2018}}</ref> The tool provided by the organization is the Textbook Alignment and Adaptations Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool.<ref>[https://achievethecore.org/page/1946/instructional-materials-evaluation-tool Textbook Alignment and Adaptations Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool]</ref> The goal of this tool is to assist in evaluation textbooks or series of textbooks for alignment to the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

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