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Stevenson, James A. – 1988
The Fry Readability Formula was employed to determine the reading grade levels of the eight most popular college U.S. history survey textbooks and the ten most popular Western civilization textbooks. It was discovered that the Fry readability technique could not produce consistently close findings on any single college history textbook. Indeed,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, History Textbooks, Readability, Readability Formulas
