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Bertalan, John J. – 1977
Two brief studies on community college social science textbook readability are compiled in this document. The first study compared textbook readability in 1977 to the findings of previous research. When the readability levels of community college social science textbooks were compared with the reading levels of the community college population in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Readability, Reading Level, Social Sciences
Peer reviewedLindsey, Jimmy D.; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1979
Reports that introductory textbooks about special education used at the college level differ in readability and that the cloze procedure can be used as an objective measure to use in selecting these textbooks. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Analysis, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Bertalan, John J. – 1976
A determination of the reading grade placement levels (GPLs) and final course grades of community college students in relationship to the GPLs of their assigned social science textbooks was the focus of a study at Citrus Community College (Florida). Dale-Chall readability placement levels were calculated for eight textbooks used in 19 classes of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Grade Prediction, Multiple Regression Analysis
