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Direct linkCunningham, James W.; Hiebert, Elfrieda H.; Mesmer, Heidi Anne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In recent years, readability formulas have gained new prominence as a basis for selecting texts for learning and assessment. Variables that quantitative tools count (e.g., word frequency, sentence length) provide valid measures of text complexity insofar as they accurately predict representative and high-quality criteria. The longstanding…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Evaluation Methods, Correlation
Download full textFuchs, Lynn S.; And Others – 1983
The purposes of this study were to assess the usefulness of a variety of readability formulas in predicting the relative difficulty of passages, and to explore the contribution of pupils' background to text difficulty. Subjects were 285 special education students in grades 1-9, 117 of whom were based in rural and suburban Minnesota (MN) and 168 of…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Predictive Measurement, Readability Formulas
