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Peer reviewedLayton, James R. – Journal of Reading, 1980
Provides a chart to be used with the Dale-Chall Readability Formula to simplify computation of readability level. (MKM)
Descriptors: Charts, Elementary Secondary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Research
Download full textRush, R. Timothy – 1984
Noting that readability formulas are strictly text-based and therefore do not reflect the interactive nature of the reading process, this paper argues that many of the instructional material evaluations for which such formulas are used are inappropriate and offers more reader-based alternatives to the use of formulas. The first half of the paper…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Materials, Readability
Kidder, Steven J. – 1977
The utility and precision of scaling 200 relatively short reading passages were analyzed using a Rasch-based measurement technique as compared to readability estimates using the Spache or Dale-Chall formulas. In addition, a regression model was specified for predicting the grade level of a text a student could literally comprehend based on…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Readability
