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“A New Readability Yardstick” by Rudolf Flesh, published June, 1948, in. Journal
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Writers like Rudolf Flesch, George Klare, Edgar Dale, and Jeanne Chall brought
the formulas and the research supporting them to the marketplace.
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Readability Do your students actually read the text-book you have chosen for them? Or do they see it as just a dull series of homework questions? Do they think of it as a friendly source of information . . . or as something to battle through? Does it show them science as a human activity that is relevant to their lives? Does the language level hinder them, or can they get past the language easily in order to get to grips with the scientific concepts? Legibility Modern textbook printing is of such consistently high quality that any concerns about legibility would focus on the artwork, where pupils may find complex and confusing diagrams that are difficult to decipher. Diagrams that are clear to us, through long familiarity, may be baffling to the new reader. The interest and motivation of the reader For many students the motivation for reading school books is likely to be low. Indeed, a textbook has been defined as ‘a book that no-one would read unless they had to’. Interest and motivation can be strongly affected by factors such as: ● ● ●
the attractiveness of illustrations, the relevance of the material to the reader, the extent to which people (including the reader) are involved.
In the tables, two ‘Human Interest’ scores are shown for some science textbooks. In the column headed ‘faces’, a value A - E is based on the number of illustrations (on the first 100 pages) that include one or more human faces. (A is >70 illustrations; E is 180; E is
