Affiliation:
1. Bonnie B. Armbruster is an associate professor of elementary and early childhood education and a senior scientist at the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a PhD degree in education from the University of Illinois. Her research interests are content area textbooks and reading/studying in the content areas.
2. Thomas H. Anderson is an associate professor of educational psychology and a senior scientist at the Center for the Study of Reading at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds an EdD degree from the University of Illinois. His research interests are text features and strategies that affect studying and computer-based instruction.
Abstract
“Considerate” content area textbooks are “user-friendly”---they are relatively easy to read, understand, and learn from. Recent research in cognitive psychology and reading suggests some features of content area textbooks that contribute to considerateness. This article addresses three of these features: Structure, coherence, and audience appropriateness. For each feature, the article describes the research basis for the feature, states briefly some problems with textbooks that we have observed in our analyses, and presents some practical suggestions for evaluating textbooks.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Education
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