Review

Want to do your part to lower the cost of college textbooks?

Consider reviewing a chapter or two of an open textbook for the Community College Open Textbook Project.

Select from our list of open textbooks.

Review Criteria

Provide feedback for a chapter of the open textbook in terms of the following:

1. Clarity and comprehensibility - content, including the instructions and exercises
2. Accuracy
3. Readability - in terms of logic, sequencing, and flow
4. Consistency of course materials - consistency in the content language and use of key terms as is necessary to facilitate understanding by novice users
5. Appropriateness of content - appropriateness of the material for community college level course
6. Interface - technological issues such as broken links, improperly displayed graphics, and ease of navigation
7. Content usefulness - the ways in which the content could be useful for teachers, students, and those with a general interest in the subject area
8. Content errors - the presence or absence of factual errors, grammatical errors, and typographical errors
9. Reading level - appropriate for community college level students
10. Cultural relevance - use of examples that are inclusive of diverse races and ethnicities
11. Modularity - the ability to adapt, rearrange, add, delete and modify the content by sections

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