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Peer reviewedTefki, Chaffai – Journal of Documentation, 1987
This review of findings in the field of readability research discusses the differences in meaning between readability and legibility, examines the origins and developments of readability formulas for children's and adult materials, and describes several of the best-known formulas for English-language materials. (46 references) (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Correlation, Predictor Variables, Readability
Black, Mary C. – 1979
A study examined whether (1) there are untested indices of difficulty that can be used to enhance the accuracy of readability formulas, (2) the same readability formula can be used to assess the readability of text for mature and immature readers and for good and poor readers, and (3) some one model of the reading process or some synthesis of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), Models
