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Lehner, Franz – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Discusses methods of textual documentation that can be used for software documentation. Highlights include measurement of text comprehensibility; methods for the measurement of documentation quality, including readability and the Cloze Procedure; tools for the measurement of text readability; and the development of the Reading Measurability…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Software, Documentation, Hypermedia
DuBay, William H. – Online Submission, 2004
The principles of readability are in every style manual. Readability formulas are in every writing aid. What is missing is the research and theory on which they stand. This short review of readability research spans 100 years. The first part covers the history of adult literacy studies in the U.S., establishing the stratified nature of the adult…
Descriptors: Readability, Adult Literacy, Readability Formulas, Reading Achievement

Kotula, Andrea Winokur – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
The matching of students with language learning disabilities and dyslexia to appropriate reading materials is discussed, and formal and informal methods are presented for determining reading levels for accuracy, fluency, and comprehension instruction and practice. The Spache Readability Formula, the New Dale-Challe Readability Formula, and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods