Accuracy of Learnability Judgments for Instructional Texts.

Britton, Bruce K.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ436865

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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Accuracy of Learnability Judgments for Instructional Texts.

Britton, Bruce K.; And Others

Journal of Educational Psychology, v83 n1 p43-47 Mar 1991

The accuracy of 210 college undergraduates' judgments of the relative learnability of original (Army training manuals) and rewritten (war or cultural histories) versions of 20 pairs of texts of known difficulty was studied. Students were 95 percent accurate in their judgments of learnability. Implications for college textbook selection are discussed. (SLD)

Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluators, Guides, Higher Education, History, Student Attitudes, Text Structure, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Selection, Textbooks, Undergraduate Students

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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