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Using Microcomputers to Determine Readability Levels.

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Feldman, Phil; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1983

Reports on the development of a computer program that was used with five different readability formulas to assess levels of reading difficulty. (FL)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Programs, Microcomputers, Readability Formulas

Measuring Readability with a Computer: What We Can Learn.

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Spiegel, Glenn; Campbell, John J. – 1985

The Flesch readability index yields meaningful information about the responses of readers to texts. Because the formula is so simple, a group of English teachers wrote a program in BASIC that would count some obvious surface features of a text and calculate Flesch scores. Among the programing problems encountered were counting words (taking into…

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques