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Direct linkBurke, Victoria; Greenberg, Daphne – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2010
There are many readability tools that instructors can use to help adult learners select reading materials. We describe and compare different types of readability tools: formulas calculated by hand, tools found on the Web, tools embedded in a word processing program, and readability tools found in a commercial software program. Practitioners do not…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Readability, Reading Material Selection, Comparative Analysis
Download full textSpiegel, 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
