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Aligning "TextEvaluator"® Scores with the Accelerated Text Complexity Guidelines Specified in the Common Core State Standards. Research Report. ETS RR-15-21
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Sheehan, Kathleen M. – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
The "TextEvaluator"® text analysis tool is a fully automated text complexity evaluation tool designed to help teachers, curriculum specialists, textbook publishers, and test developers select texts that are consistent with the text complexity guidelines specified in the Common Core State Standards.This paper documents the procedure used…
Descriptors: Scores, Common Core State Standards, Computer Software, Computational Linguistics
Computing Readability.
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Rye, James – Reading, 1985
Explores the use of microcomputers in readability calculation. (DF)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education, Microcomputers
Determining Readability with a Microcomputer.
Kennedy, Keith – Curriculum Review, 1985
Discusses history of the development of computer software to determine material readability and general design of readability software. Tables present summaries of: (1) parameters used by selected readability scales and their grade level applications; and (2) microcomputer software programs available, including readability techniques included in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Costs, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Matching Readers to Instructional Materials: The Use of Classic Readability Measures for Students with Language Learning Disabilities and Dyslexia.
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Kotula, Andrea Winokur – Topics in Language Disorders, 2003
The matching of students with language learning disabilities and dyslexia to appropriate reading materials is discussed, and formal and informal methods are presented for determining reading levels for accuracy, fluency, and comprehension instruction and practice. The Spache Readability Formula, the New Dale-Challe Readability Formula, and…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Modeling Curves with Linear Equations: Programming Fry's Readability Graph.
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Fiore, Gregory N. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1989
This article presents a technique that builds linear equations to approximate Fry's readability graph. A BASIC program building the linear equations and providing the grade levels is provided. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematical Applications
Computer Applications in Reading. Second Edition.
Mason, George E.; And Others – 1983
Constituting an updated treatment of the use of computers for reading instruction, this book focuses on recent developments in computer assisted instruction and its classroom implications. The ten chapters cover the following topics: (1) the development of digital computers and their programs, (2) college and university centers in computer based…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Research, Educational Trends
Using Computers in the Teaching of Reading. Computers in the Curriculum Series.
Strickland, Dorothy S.; And Others – 1987
Noting that the proliferation of computers in the schools requires teachers to know the best ways to use them, this book shows how the computer can be used in a reading and language arts curriculum as tool, tutor, and tutee with currently available software. Chapter one defines the reading process in terms of its relationship to background…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Copyrights
EPIEgram: The Newsletter of Systemic Change, 1991-1992.
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EPIEgram: The Newsletter of Systemic Change, 1992
The EPIEgram newsletter contains information about educational materials and technology and systemic change. In addition to continuing features, "Research & Reports,""Views and Reviews," and "The Educational Software Selector (TESS)," the five issues and two double issues contain articles on textbook adoption;…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Software Evaluation, Copyrights, Curriculum Development