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Peer reviewedOlson, Margot A. – Community College Review, 1986
Reviews research findings about community college students' reading skill levels; the discrepancy between reading levels and the difficulty of college-level reading materials; reading program characteristics and effectiveness; textbook readibility formulas; and other methods of evaluating textbooks. Offers recommendations for reducing the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Difficulty Level, Program Evaluation, Readability Formulas
