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Wagler, Amy E.; Lesser, Lawrence M.; González, Ariel I.; Leal, Luis – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2015
A corpus of current editions of statistics textbooks was assessed to compare aspects and levels of readability for the topics of "measures of center," "line of fit," "regression analysis," and "regression inference." Analysis with lexical software of these text selections revealed that the large corpus can…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Grammar, Higher Education, Statistics
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Grouws, Douglas A.; Robinson, Richard D. – School Science and Mathematics, 1973
Describes the "cloze" procedure for judging the readability of textbook prose and in particular how this procedure may be applied to written mathematical materials. (JP)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evaluation Methods, Mathematics Education, Readability