Determining textbook learning enhancement as perceived by students and lecturers.

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to determine to what extent textbook characteristics enhance learning. A project team compiled two questionnaires. Twenty-nine questions had two scales to determine the importance and satisfaction with textbook characteristics. These questions are the focus of this paper. A number of attributes tested by quadrant analysis and the Wilcoxon signed-ranked test showed that perception and expectation differs significantly for a number of characteristics .The results indicate that academics who embark on writing a textbook should take note of the textbook characteristics that students and academics feel enhance learning and those characteristics that do not.