Determining Textbook Learning Enhancement as Perceived by Students and Lecturers

The purpose of this research was to determine to what extent text book characteristics enhance learning. A project team compiled two quest ionnaires. Twenty-nine questions had two scales to determine the importance and satisfaction with text book 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 he results indicate that academics who embark on writing a text book should take note of the text book characteristics that students and academics feel enhance learning and those characteristics that do not.