Readability of Amplitude Modulation (AM) detector laboratory sheet

This paper discusses about the readability of the Amplitude Modulation laboratory manual used by Electrical Engineering (Communications) students. A 15 items questionnaire was developed and administered to 66 Electrical Engineering (Communications) students. It was identified that the readability factor was determined at value 55.4, which implies that those over the age of 15 years old should be able to understand the lab sheet. Further analysis indicates that many students not read the laboratory manual prior to laboratory sessions. In addition, the results indicate that 49.5% of student that did read the manual but failed to understand the lab sheet instructions. Both parametric and non parametric analyses have yield unequal distribution in reading and understanding the lab sheet, thus implying a disparity in distribution between reading and understanding the lab sheet. Following this, there are ongoing efforts to improve the current AM lab sheet.