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Download full textHoffman, James V.; O'Neal, Sharon F. – 1979
The hypothesis of this study was that reading rate would be relatively constant (within a 15% range of the subject's mean reading rate) both within and across different difficulty levels of materials as long as the levels of difficulty remained at or below the subject's ability level. The subjects were 65 college students whose reading levels…
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Readability
Peer reviewedHoffman, James V.; Roser, Nancy L.; Salas, Rachel; Patterson, Elizabeth; Pennington, Julie – Journal of Literacy Research, 2001
Investigates reliability of two approaches for estimating text difficulty at the first-grade level: the Scale for Text Accessibility and Support and the Fountas/Pinnell system. Supports the predictive validity of the two rating scales with performance data. Suggests potential benchmarks for first-grade performance: 95% accuracy; 80 words per…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Difficulty Level, Grade 1, Measurement Techniques
