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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
Graveel, John G.; Fribourg, Henry A. – Journal of Agronomic Education, 1987
Reported is a study designed to determine whether reading grade level (RGL) assessment techniques used for elementary and secondary education textbooks would discriminate among plant and soil science textbooks. The study was to select the RGL indices suited to quantify the readability of these sources, and to identify the factors affecting…
Descriptors: Agronomy, College Science, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
