As we have seen the significance of evaluating textbooks, we are now concerned with the ways we evaluate them and the criteria we follow in the process of evaluation. Sheldon (1988) maintains that since no one set of criteria is applicable to all different situations, we can only commit ourselves to checklists or scoring systems. He suggests the use of textbook evaluation
sheets in the ELT classroom. The evaluation sheet consists of a list of factors such as rationale, availability, layout etc. and rating (poor, fair, good,excellent) and comments will be given at the corresponding space by theevaluator. The whole process of textbook assessment is inevitably a
subjective activity.