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Peer reviewedKoenke, Karl – Reading Teacher, 1987
Looks at ERIC documents that deal with readability concerns. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Instruction
Download full textMarr, Mary Beth – 1982
The passage comprehensibility of three diagnostic reading tests--the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, the Spache Diagnostic Reading Scales, and the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty--was evaluated using the following text variables: content familiarity, vocabulary, the number of idea units in the text, the number of text-based inferences…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas
Peer reviewedDanielson, Kathy Everts – Reading Horizons, 1987
Lists the dangers of readability formulas and concludes that while they may be a necessary evil, they should not be used as the underlying structure of a reading program. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
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 reviewedLange, Bob – Reading Teacher, 1982
Examines the arguments against the indiscriminate use of readability formulas. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Readability Formulas, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedMcKenna, Michael C. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Reviews the literature concerning informal reading inventories and discusses a number of issues related to them, including question choice, scoring criteria, and allowable miscues. Offers guidelines for constructing and using the inventories. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Readability, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedSmith, Lewis B. – Reading World, 1982
Reports on a study in which passages from children's literature were prepared using cloze and presented to college and elementary school students. Reveals that neither group of students did well on the task. Questions the desirability of using cloze for matching readers to creative writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Elementary Education
Bormuth, John R. – 1971
The purpose of these studies was to develop and demonstrate a model for identifying criterion levels of performance that can be rationally defended as being the best level of performance for a particular instructional task. The specific objective was to identify the score on a cloze test that represents the most desirable level of performance on…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cloze Procedure, Criterion Referenced Tests, Decision Making
