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Peer reviewedOlson, Margot A. – Community College Review, 1986
Reviews research findings about community college students' reading skill levels; the discrepancy between reading levels and the difficulty of college-level reading materials; reading program characteristics and effectiveness; textbook readibility formulas; and other methods of evaluating textbooks. Offers recommendations for reducing the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Difficulty Level, Program Evaluation, Readability Formulas
Beal, Janice – 1982
Intended to address the problems associated with functionally illiterate students, this manual provides vocational educators with strategies for incorporating reading skills into specific content area instruction. The exercises stress the skills necessary to assess vocational classroom reading materials, develop content specific vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Inservice Teacher Education
