Instructional materials
{{Short description|Materials used to impart knowledge}}
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Instructional materials, also known as teaching materials, learning materials, or teaching/learning materials (TLM),{{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}} 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.{{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}} 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":
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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.{{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}}}}
Types of instructional materials
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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.http://acrl.ala.org/IS/category/committees/primo{{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 }} 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."{{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}} The tool provided by the organization is the Textbook Alignment and Adaptations Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool.[https://achievethecore.org/page/1946/instructional-materials-evaluation-tool Textbook Alignment and Adaptations Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool] The goal of this tool is to assist in evaluation textbooks or series of textbooks for alignment to the Common Core State Standards Initiative.