Analysis of Text Difficulty in Lower-Secondary Chemistry Textbooks

Autor/inn/en	Rusek, Martin; Vojír, Karel
Titel	Analysis of Text Difficulty in Lower-Secondary Chemistry Textbooks
Quelle	In: Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 20 (2019) 1, S.85-94 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Rusek, Martin) ORCID (Vojír, Karel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1756-1108
DOI	10.1039/c8rp00141c
Schlagwörter	Textbooks; Secondary School Science; Difficulty Level; Chemistry; Science Instruction; Grade 8; Grade 9; Textbook Content; Foreign Countries; Czech Republic + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Chemie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Lehrbuchtext; Ausland; Tschechische Republik
Abstract	This paper focuses on the procedure and results for analyzing text-difficulty in lower-secondary chemistry textbooks in the Czech Republic. The authors use established methodology for text-difficulty analysis by Nestler, adapted by Prucha and Pluskal by adding a second independent analyser to improve reliability. Some textbooks do not follow the expected trend of either text-difficulty coherence or increasing text-difficulty between books for the 8th and 9th grade. No trend in topic difficulty was found either. The results show that learning outcomes may differ significantly when different books are used, despite the fact that they are supposed to support the same curriculum. For this reason, the results serve to support not only teachers when selecting a textbook, but also researchers as a starting point for lesson observations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01