Affiliation:
1. Marilyn J. Chambliss is an educational psychologist and former reading teacher. She earned her PhD degree from Stanford University in 1990. Her interests include the effect of text characteristics on how children comprehend and learn, particularly in science and social studies. Until recently, she directed the Text Analysis Project in the School of Education at Stanford University. She and her staff worked collaboratively with textbook publishers and district selectors to develop new models for...
Abstract
Current methods of textbook evaluation have not led to changes necessary for enhancing the comprehension of diverse learners. These methods have failed to highlight three important comprehensibility features of textbook writing: familiarity, interestingness, and structural coherence. In this article present an evaluation technique that uses graphic organziers to represent textbook material so that it can be evaluated according to these three features. I review relevant research, show how to represent two sixth-grade social studies textbooks graphically, and discuss how publishers, state adopters, district selectors, and classroom teachers could use the technique to improve textbook materials for all students.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Education
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