Readability and human interest scores of thirty-six recently published introductory educational psychology tests

Used procedures established by R. Flesch (1948) to measure the reading ease and human interest of 36 introductory educational psychology texts (31 textbooks and 5 books of readings) all published since 1970. Random samples of 20 pages were selected from each text, and from these, 5 100-word samples were chosen so that the page span of the total text was included. A reading ease score and a human interest score were obtained from each 100-word sample. Compared to a similar study of introductory general psychology texts by B. Gillen (1973), results indicate that educational psychology texts have a greater probability of being classified as dull and very difficult than do the introductory general psychology texts. (40 ref) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)