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Peer reviewedKeenan, Donna – Reading Horizons, 1982
Suggests that the popular and simple readability formulas may not be accurate enough to predict the instructional materials best suited to the reading abilities of secondary school students. (FL)
Descriptors: Readability Formulas, Reading Research, Secondary Education, Test Reliability
Peer reviewedGraves, Michael F.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Replicates an earlier study in which students read versions of passages rewritten by composition instructors, text linguists, or Time-Life writers. Finds that the composition instructor's revisions were the most effective. Points out methodological lessons learned. Comments on some conclusions on improving textbook design and the measures used in…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
Peer reviewedAgnihotri, R. K.; Khanna, A. L. – Journal of Reading, 1992
Shows how a number of readability measures developed in English were applied to a textbook written in Hindi. Emphasizes that the more recent approaches to readability that focus on syntax, conceptual difficulty, and organization are a teacher's best help in selecting materials for students. (SR)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Foreign Countries, Hindi, Readability
Zimet, Sara F. – Teachers Coll Rec, 1969
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Reading Development, Reading Material Selection
Rose, Phillip Allen – 1976
The purpose of this study was to determine the compatibility of the reading level of students with the required power-mechanics textbooks used by senior industrial arts majors in the California State University and Colleges System. The data for this study were obtained from responses to the Schrammel-Gray High School and College Reading Test…
Descriptors: College Seniors, College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMiller, John W. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Shows that a wide variety of textbook characteristics play a role in influencing teachers' selection process, and that some of these interact with teacher characteristics. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Reading Instruction
Horn, Joan M. – 1978
Two readability formulas were applied to two math and two reading series textbooks at the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade levels to see whether the publishers' suggested reading levels were accurate. Five samples were taken from each text and compared to the publishers' suggested usage according to grade level. Results showed that although formulas…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria, Intermediate Grades, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedRadencich, Marguerite C. – Reading World, 1984
Reviews results of a survey of reading/study skills texts for college developmental reading courses. Offers survey-based recommendations for selection of texts. (FL)
Descriptors: College Programs, Content Analysis, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education
Download full textDavison, Alice – 1986
To assist textbook adoption committees in answering the questions that arise as they consider basal reading series, this paper provides a discussion of readability. Following a brief introduction, the second section of the paper offers a background discussion of what readability really means. In addition, this section looks at three factors to…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Program Development
Woodward, Arthur – 1985
To determine how textbook publishers have changed the content of teachers' manuals designed to accompany basal reading series, a study was undertaken to examine manuals published by two different publishers since the l920s. Ten fifth grade manuals were reviewed for physical characteristics, tests, number of stories, instructional suggestions,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Educational History, Elementary Education
Educational Products Information Exchange Inst., Stony Brook, NY. – 1983
A guide for teachers selecting reading textbooks, this report brings together information about basal programs on the market and clarification of important issues in reading instruction. A general analysis of 20 basal programs includes a prose explication and a table comparing contents (skills), reading selections, methodology, assessment tests,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Elementary Education, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
