THE IMPACT OF TEXT READABILITY INDICES IN THE LEARNING OF PHYSICS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

This paper investigated the impact of text readability indices on the learning of Physics in secondary schools. This was a descriptive survey research which was questionnaire based. The population of the study was all public Secondary Schools (Physics Students) in Ado Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select twenty (20) Physics students each from the five (5) selected secondary schools from Ado Local Government Area of Ekiti State. A total of one hundred (100) Physics students were used as samples for the study comprises of sixty-four (64) male and thirty-six (36) female. Three research questions were generated and were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Among others, the study revealed that; each of the text readability indices plays vital role in Physics reading ability of Physics Students in Secondary Schools. Conclusion and recommendations were also made in this paper.