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Evaluating Patient Education Resources for Supporting Treatment Decisions in Latent Tuberculosis Infection
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Clarke, Amy L.; Sowemimo, Tamilore; Jones, Annie S. K.; Rangaka, Molebogeng X.; Horne, Rob – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: People with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) are required to make complex treatment decisions, which require an understanding of personal risk and associated benefits. However, many people with LTBI in the United Kingdom are at risk of low health literacy and can also experience language barriers, which can affect decision making.…
Descriptors: Patient Education, Diseases, Readability, Readability Formulas
Micro-Level Text Contents of One- to Five-Minute News: American and Philippine English Compared
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Munalim, Leonardo O. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
The number of minutes appended in headlines serves as a signpost for readers regarding the reading time. Being the first on Minute News, this present quantitative study reports the results from comparative analyses of text contents of one-to-five Minute News published by one Philippine and one American media outlet in November 2018. Selected…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Contrastive Linguistics, Content Analysis, Computational Linguistics
Readability of Individualized Education Programs
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Lo, Lusa – Preventing School Failure, 2014
An individualized education program is a legal document that details information regarding the special education program of a student with a disability. For parents to determine whether they agree with the individualized education program that is proposed by the school, they must first be able to read and comprehend the document. This study aimed…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Special Education, Readability, Parent Materials
A Content Analysis of Library Vendor Privacy Policies: Do They Meet Our Standards?
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Magi, Trina J. – College & Research Libraries, 2010
Librarians have a long history of protecting user privacy, but they have done seemingly little to understand or influence the privacy policies of library resource vendors that increasingly collect user information through Web 2.0-style personalization features. After citing evidence that college students value privacy, this study used content…
Descriptors: Privacy, Policy, Content Analysis, Online Vendors
Coh-Metrix: Providing Multilevel Analyses of Text Characteristics
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Graesser, Arthur C.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Kulikowich, Jonna M. – Educational Researcher, 2011
Computer analyses of text characteristics are often used by reading teachers, researchers, and policy makers when selecting texts for students. The authors of this article identify components of language, discourse, and cognition that underlie traditional automated metrics of text difficulty and their new Coh-Metrix system. Coh-Metrix analyzes…
Descriptors: Reading Teachers, Language Acquisition, Computers, Researchers
Essay Test Scores and Reading Difficulty.
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Chase, Clinton I. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1983
Proposition analysis was used to equate the text base of two essays with different readability levels. Easier reading essays were given higher scores than difficult reading essays. The results appear to identify another noncontent influence on essay test scores, leaving increasingly less variance for differences in content. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, Essay Tests, Higher Education