This document is a book evaluation form for a business education text. It contains 20 criteria for evaluating the text on aspects like content coverage, sequencing of topics, exercises, questions, readability, graphics, and references. The evaluator is asked to rate each criterion on a scale of 1 to 5 based on how well the text meets that standard, with 5 being excellent and 1 being unsatisfactory. The ratings are totaled to calculate a maximum possible grade of 100 for the text.

1. Business Education
Book Evaluation Form
Name__________________________________________ School_________________________
Subject________________________________________ Date ___________________________
Text _________________________________________________________________________
Author________________________________________________________________________
Publisher______________________________________________________________________
For what form/grade level is this book suitable ________________________________________
Tick [] the appropriate column (based on observation)
Excellent 5 Good 4 Average 3 Weak 2 Unsatisfactory 1
Performance Level
Observation Category
5 4 3 2 1
1 Does the content adequately cover requirements?
2 Are topics/concepts presented in sufficient detail?
3 Does the sequencing of topics in the text match that of the
syllabus?
4 Do exercises and activities help to reinforce skills and
attitudes taught?
5 Do exercises and activities help to extend and evaluate
knowledge?
6 Are there sufficient practices exercises, activities and
projects?
7 Are there sufficient assessment and evaluation
assignments?
8 The questions make connections between the learned
content, allow the reader to reflect on main ideas and
extend critical thinking about past and future events.
9 Questions are multi-leveled, i.e, there are questions that the
reader can answer by looking in a specific place in the text,
some that require the reader to look in several places to find
the answer, and others that require the reader to look for
clues in what they have read and combine these with their
prior knowledge.
10 Writing is descriptive and thought-provoking and fosters
visualization, sparking the reader’s imagination.
Prepared by Jacqueline Richardson
Education Officer-Business

2. 11 Vocabulary consists of works that are both familiar and
challenging, and words the reader may not know are clearly
defined.
12 Headings and subheadings support the content and preview
what is coming so that the reader gets a clear idea about the
section.
13 Captions and labels are accurate and informative, and
supplement the text or main ideas in that part of the book.
14 The point size of the type, length of the line of type, and
space between each line all work together, producing a page
that is only visually appealing but also readable and
accessible.
15 The text is complemented/supported by graphic elements
that do no crowd the page or overwhelm the student with
too much textual or visual information.
16 Graphics are located with the text that they refer to and
consistently identified with call outs, such as figure 1,
figure 2 etc.
17 Maps and charts include keys or legends that explain what
the symbols mean
18 Glossary included-unfamiliar or specialized terms are well
defined.
19 Index is thorough and easy to use, and consists of entries
that are detailed and cross-referenced.
20 Bibliography-list of books and other reference works used
by author(s) is comprehensive.
Column Total
Grand
Total
Maximum Grade 100
Prepared by Jacqueline Richardson
Education Officer-Business