FLIP: A Framework for Content Area Reading.

■ If students are to become self-actualizing learners, they must be able to analyze an academic task and then plan actions appropriate for completing it. This includes their being able to estimate how difficult an assignment will be for them so that they can decide how to approach it. This is particularly true with textbook reading assignments. Yet most measures to evaluate readability are teacher directed and look at the text as isolated from the learner. Students need an informal means to