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Bryant, Joyce Elaine Peaden – 1971
This study has three purposes: (1) to determine if there were differences in the readability levels of the content-oriented textbooks and the reading levels of students in grades 10, 11, and 12; (2) to determine the percentage of students in each grade for whom the textbooks were too difficult; and (3) to determine the cost of those textbooks…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Andrews, Louise Parcell – 1991
A survey was administered to 10th-grade regular biology students to diagnose the cause for low achievement on chapter tests. Survey results verified teacher suspicion that students did not read textbook assignments when designated as homework and, as a consequence, this deficiency contributed to low achievement scores. A treatment included…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Reading, Educational Research, Grade 10