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Wagler, Amy E.; Lesser, Lawrence M.; González, Ariel I.; Leal, Luis – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2015
A corpus of current editions of statistics textbooks was assessed to compare aspects and levels of readability for the topics of "measures of center," "line of fit," "regression analysis," and "regression inference." Analysis with lexical software of these text selections revealed that the large corpus can…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Grammar, Higher Education, Statistics
Kossack, Sharon Wall; Vigilante, Nicholas – 1981
Most teachers of mathematics would agree that a student's major difficulty when studying mathematics is the mastery of "vocabulary." A taxonomy could provide an outline of the various types of vocabulary and could suggest their relative interrelationships. One proposed taxonomy has five levels that seem to recur. The levels seem to have…
Descriptors: Classification, Curriculum Development, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Brodbelt, Samuel – Clearing House, 1972
Author suggests criteria that can be weighted mathematically for computing comparable strengths and weaknesses in textbooks. (MB)
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Criteria, Curriculum Development, Mathematical Applications