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Graveel, John G.; Fribourg, Henry A. – Journal of Agronomic Education, 1987
Reported is a study designed to determine whether reading grade level (RGL) assessment techniques used for elementary and secondary education textbooks would discriminate among plant and soil science textbooks. The study was to select the RGL indices suited to quantify the readability of these sources, and to identify the factors affecting…
Descriptors: Agronomy, College Science, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
Williams, Ray – 1982
A British publisher conducted a readability study of its English language content area texts being used in foreign countries to determine how the texts could be made more readable. A cloze procedure assessment of a secondary school Hong Kong social studies series indicated that the English texts were too difficult for 91% of the pupils tested.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, English (Second Language)
