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Peer reviewedPopham, W. James – Reading Horizons, 1982
Details the steps followed in the development of the Basic Skills Word List. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Readability, Reading Tests, Test Construction
Peer reviewedHoman, Susan; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1994
A study was conducted with 782 elementary school students to determine whether the Homan-Hewitt Readability Formula could identify the readability of a single-sentence test item. Results indicate that a relationship exists between students' reading grade levels and responses to test items written at higher readability levels. (SLD)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Identification
Bolden, Bernadine J.; Stoddard, Ann – 1980
This study examined the effect of two ways of question phrasing as related to three styles of expository writing on the test performance of elementary school children. Multiple-choice questions were developed for sets of passages which were written using three different syntactic structures; and which had different levels of difficulty. The…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Kernel Sentences, Multiple Choice Tests
