Information readability of e-textbooks for history (on the example of Polish textbook for primary school, grade six)

Abstract

The article contains a description of the rules of the creation and development of a free electronic textbook for primary school in Poland. There is also a presentation of the results of a study on the comprehensibility of a textbook available on the www.epodreczniki.pl platform. The main goal of this work is to indicate if the text proposed to the students is clear and comprehensible for them; the range of readability is prepared with the use of the analyses made with the use of the Jasnopis and Logios programs. The source for the research was found in the data from studying randomly selected text fragments from the history textbook for the sixth grade, available online and processed in the selected computer programs, created for the reason of measuring the comprehensibility of the text in Polish. As a result of the research it was established that the readability of the texts included in the e-textbook Historia i spoleczenstwo. Wspoln@ historia. Klasa 6 podstawowa (History and society. Common history. Sixth grade primary school) can be too difficult for the recipients aged 11–12, after five years of education in primary school. However, it was also established that there are no guidelines to construct an electronic textbook text complemented with various multimedia content, often replacing the very text in the book.