Readability Level of the National and Social Education Textbook among the Fourth Grade Students in Jordan

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to determine the readability
level of national and social education textbook among the fourth
grade students in Jordan, and to explore the effect of gender on the
readability level, and the text order according to the readability level
of the textbook. Four cloze tests of different topics of the textbook
were set up to measure the readability level; these tests were
distributed to a random sample of (300) male and female students in
different schools of the first Zarqa Directorate of Education. The
study results revealed that students' performance in the readability
level of the textbook was low, and that there were significant
differences in the readability level of the textbook due to gender.
These difference were in favor of the female students. The findings
also revealed that the reading texts in the textbook were not scaled
according to the readability level