Textbook Equity

Clarity and Comprehensibility “…of content, including the instructions and exercises.”
Definition: free from obscurity and easy to understand.
Synonyms: lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity, understandability.

Accuracy
Definition: the quality of being near to the true value.
Synonyms: truth

Readability “…in terms of logic, sequencing, and flow.”
Definition: the quality of written language that makes it easy to read and understand
Synonyms: comprehensibility, understandability

Consistency “… in the content language and use of key terms as is necessary to facilitate understanding by novice users.”
Definition: a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
Synonyms: uniformity, uniformness

Appropriateness of content “…appropriateness of the material for {community college} level courses.”
Definition: the quality of being specially suitable
Synonyms: suitability, suitableness

Interface “…technological issues such as broken links, improperly displayed graphics, and ease of navigation.”
Definition: (user) interface –(computer science) a program that controls a display for the user(usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system)

Content usefulness “…the ways in which the content could be useful for teachers, students, and those with a general interest in the subject area.”
Definition: the quality of being of practical use.
Synonyms: utility

Modularity “…the ability to adapt, rearrange, add, delete and modify the content by sections.”
Definition: Modularity >Modular >Module: Computer Science: a portion of a program that carries out a specific function and may be used alone or combined with other modules of the same program.

Content errors “…the presence or absence of factual errors, grammatical errors, and typographical errors in the content.”
Definition: mistake, incorrect Synonyms: misstatement, misconception

Reading level …appropriate for {community college} level students.”
Definition: level > a relative position or degree of value in a graded groupSynonyms: tier, rank

Cultural relevance “…use of examples that are inclusive of diverse races and ethnicities.” Definition: cultural, ethnic, ethnical –denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people.
Definition: relevance, relevancy –the relation of something to the matter at hand.