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Readability of Freshmen College Textbooks in the Social Sciences as Compared to the Reading Ability of Students Who Use Them. A Pilot Study.

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Kurzman, Maurice – 1973

The subjects for this study were 81 freshman students who were taking courses in the social sciences at Herbert H. Lehman College in New York. A Nelson Denny Reading Test showed their average reading grade level to be 10.4 Twenty-three books in the social science areas were selected for appraisal, using such procedures as the application of a…

Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, History Textbooks, Readability

Academic Achievement and Reading Ability: Hispanics, Males and Females.

Rivera, Manuel G. – 1983

To determine the relationship of reading ability to age, sex, Hispanic ethnicity, and majors in economics, political science, history, and psychology, 141 students who completed summer social science courses at a California community college were given the Nelson Denny Reading Test, which scores for vocabulary and comprehension. Of the 141…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, College Students, Community Colleges