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Morales, Miraida – ProQuest LLC, 2019
To investigate how readability affects the way adults who are learning to read evaluate health information, a mixed methods research study was designed based on a sociotechnical framework and using theories of everyday life information seeking. The study analyzed a corpus of consumer health information documents (N = 501) using the CohMetrix text…
Descriptors: Readability, Adults, Adult Literacy, Health
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Duffy, Thomas M.; Kabance, Paula – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
The present findings imply that a readability formula is not an effective writing production criterion, even when the writer does not deliberately write to the formula. Comprehensibility of text might be better controlled through the proper use of the transformer concept (MacDonald-Ross and Waller). (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Difficulty Level