Analysis of text difficulty in lower-secondary chemistry textbooks
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F19%3A10386716" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/19:10386716 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=FDVwVFKlRL" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=FDVwVFKlRL</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8rp00141c" target="_blank" >10.1039/c8rp00141c</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Analysis of text difficulty in lower-secondary chemistry textbooks
Original language description
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 Pruocha 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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Chemistry Education, Research and Practice
ISSN
1756-1108
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2019
Issue of the periodical within the volume
20
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
85-94
UT code for WoS article
000482260100006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85065991629