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Download full textMarr, Mary Beth – 1982
The passage comprehensibility of three diagnostic reading tests--the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, the Spache Diagnostic Reading Scales, and the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty--was evaluated using the following text variables: content familiarity, vocabulary, the number of idea units in the text, the number of text-based inferences…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas
Chall, Jeanne S. – 1977
Reading selections from six Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) administered from 1947 to 1975 were analyzed to determine whether a decrease in the difficulty level of elementary and secondary textbooks, workbooks, and teachers' guides corresponded with the SAT score decline. Various indices of reading difficulty and challenge were used. Readability…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level
