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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nSocial Studies Textbook Effects: Evidence From Texas  \nCorey Savage  \nUniversity of Tübingen  \nBrown University  \nNicolas Hübner  \nMartin Biewen  \nBenjamin Nagengast  \nUniversity of Tübingen  \nMorgan S. Polikoff  \nUniversity of Southern California  \nWell-informed decisions on curricular materials can be an efficient way to boost student achievement. Prior studies have employed experimental and quasi-experimental designs to investigate the effects of textbooks on mathematics achievement. This is the first study to consider textbook effects in social studies education. Within the context of a textbook adoption cycle in Texas, we use a difference-in-differences approach with district-level administrative data and estimate the effects of adopting a state-approved textbook on social studies achievement. We find no evidence of a practically meaningful adoption effect. We conclude by highlighting the need for further high-quality research in this often-overlooked school subject area.  \nKeywords: achievement, curriculum, econometric analysis, quasi-experimental analysis, social studies education, textbooks  \nTexTbooks are considered to have a strong influence on what is taught in the classroom and students’ opportunity to learn, mediating the relationship between the intended and implemented curricula (Tarr et al., 2008; Valverde et al., 2002) . Scholars have documented the prevalence of social studies textbook use in recent decades (Baldi et al., 2001; Levstik, 2008), and survey data from the 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress provides further evidence that textbook use in social studies education remains common in the United States (National Center for Education Statistics, n.d.) .  \nResearchers have advocated for high-quality studies of social studies textbooks for decades (Levstik, 2008; Wade, 1993), but the empirically rigorous studies on textbook effects to date have focused exclusively on mathematics (Bhatt & Koedel, 2012; Bhatt et al., 2013; Koedel et al., 2017; Pellegrini et al., 2018; Slavin & Lake, 2008; Slavin et al., 2009) . Certainly, mathematics test scores are predictive of a range of desired proximal and distal student outcomes (Goldhaber & Özek, 2019) . However, beyond the value of fostering this crucial knowledge in its own right, improving knowledge in history and politics is also thought  \nto have additional, unique civic returns by promoting internal political efficacy and civic engagement (Barton & Levstik, 2004; Delli Carpini & Keeter, 1996; Galston, 2001; Krampen, 2000). Yet, U.S. students’knowledge and skills in social studies and its underlying disciplines are perennially low, both generally and relative to other school subjects such as mathematics and reading (Delli Carpini & Keeter, 1996; Galston, 2001; National Center for Education Statistics, n.d.; Niemi, 2012; Ravitch & Finn, 1988) . Fortunately, social studies and civic education have received renewed interest in the past year, as U.S. news media, philanthropies, and prominent public officials (e.g., U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts) have called for increased attention to and improvement of civic education (Sawchuk, 2019, 2020; Walsh, 2019) . Given the current attention to civics and social studies, the potential benefits of well-informed textbook decisions for student achievement (Chingos & Whitehurst, 2012; Kirst, 1982), and the lack of empirical evidence regarding the effects of these frequently used curricular resources in the context of social studies education, studying the effects of social studies textbooks in practice isan important line of inquiry.  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This ","cbCaisHf4SU4wPBF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisHf4SU4wPBF","pdf",555018,"English","# Social Studies Textbook Effects: Evidence From Texas\n## Conceptual Framework","[{\"question\":\"What research question does the study address?\",\"answer\":\"The study asks whether adopting a state-approved social studies textbook improves student achievement, using the Texas adoption cycle as context.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the study estimate textbook effects?\",\"answer\":\"It applies a difference-in-differences strategy with district-level administrative panel data, comparing adopting districts to an appropriate non-adopting comparison group.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the results show about textbook adoption effects?\",\"answer\":\"The study finds no evidence of a practically meaningful adoption effect on social studies achievement.\"}]","Social Studies Textbook Effects - Evidence From Texas | PDF",1792068751,23]