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Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2012
The research described in this report is a randomized controlled trial in which seventh- and eighth-grade students were randomly assigned to complete a set of 25 math questions delivered with either standard language or language that had undergone "linguistic modification" by the research team. The purpose of the study was to assess the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 7, Grade 8, Mathematics Tests
Direct linkMellow, Jeff; Christian, Johnna – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2008
The need for strong discharge planning materials which includes reentry guides assumes increasing importance with the large numbers of prisoners being discharged. They return to their communities and need to secure housing, find employment, obtain health care, and in many instances, on-going treatment for substance abuse and mental illness. The…
Descriptors: Guides, Criminals, Readability, Content Analysis
Schutten, Mary; McFarland, Allison – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2009
Three of the national health education standards include decision-making, accessing information and analyzing influences. WebQuests are a popular inquiry-oriented method used by secondary teachers to help students achieve these content standards. While WebQuests support higher level thinking skills, the readability level of the information on the…
Descriptors: Readability, Health Education, Risk, Grade 11
Sloan, Barbara – 1980
The Fry Readability Graph was used to determine the validity of the publisher's recommended grade usage for four reading series at the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade levels. Three samples were analyzed from each text, and these results were compared with the publisher's stated grade levels. The majority of the basals investigated had an average…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Content Analysis, Intermediate Grades, Readability
Anderson, Jonathan – 1981
"Lasbarhetsindex" ("Lix") is a readability formula developed in Sweden that holds promise for assessing text difficulty in other languages, including English. So far three separate studies have been conducted to test Lix with French and English texts, with German and English texts, and with Greek and English texts. In all three…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, English, Foreign Countries
Huetteman, Julie Doidge – 1989
An instrument to assist in assessing textbooks was created to provide a concise format for comparison and evaluation. Textbook characteristics were selected to illustrate content and proportion of characteristics of textbooks. Nine textbook characteristics were selected for quantifying the content areas of textbooks: (1) number of pages in the…
Descriptors: Charts, Content Analysis, Data Collection, Illustrations
Anderson, Thomas H.; And Others – 1980
Two representative samples of expository prose from sixth grade textbooks (one in science and one in social studies) were analyzed for clarity of explanation. Four text criteria were applied to the analyses: structure, unity, coherence, and audience appropriateness. The results of the analysis suggested that many children's textbooks are not…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Grade 6
Nevid, Jeffrey S.; Lampmann, Jodi L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2003
Eighty college students read textbook passages that either included marginal inserts to signal key concepts or did not include these inserts. Signaling key concepts enhanced performance on content quizzes overall and on subsets of items assessing signaled material. Performance was not affected on subsets of items for nonsignaled content. Students…
Descriptors: Tests, Computation, College Students, Reader Text Relationship
