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- Title
Readability of Introductory Finance Textbooks.
- Authors
Plucinski, Kenneth J.; Seyedian, Mojtaba
- Abstract
Selection of a textbook for an introductory finance course can be challenging. Many criteria may be considered in such decisions, including a textbook's readability level. Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability index, this study analyzes the predicted readability of five popular introductory finance textbooks. T-tests are performed to determine whether significant differences exist between the textbooks. The study finds that one text is clearly more readable than all of the others. These findings can be useful to adopters and editors of introductory finance textbooks.
- Subjects
TEXTBOOK readability; READABILITY (Literary style); FINANCE education in universities &; colleges; T-test (Statistics); STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
- Publication
Journal of Financial Education, 2013, Vol 39, Issue 1/2, p43
- ISSN
0093-3961
- Publication type
Article