An Experimental Approach to the Improvement of the Typographic Design of Textbooks.

Wendt, Dirk

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ERIC Number: EJ221427

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Publication Date: 1979

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An Experimental Approach to the Improvement of the Typographic Design of Textbooks.

Wendt, Dirk

Visible Language, v13 n2 p108-33 1979

A lesson from a physics textbook for secondary students was redesigned in three versions and given to 600 students. Results of achievement measures suggested that one of the experimental versions (which stressed the visual aspects of the printed page) was superior to the standard and the other experimental versions. (GT)

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Design, Design Preferences, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Layout (Publications), Physics, Science Instruction, Secondary Education, Textbook Research, Textbooks, Visual Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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