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Anderson, Jonathan – Journal of Reading, 1983
Indicates that the Rix modification of the Lix Readability Formula is easy to calculate, correlates highly with other popular formulas, and is useful for materials for grades 3 through 12. (AEA)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readability Formulas, Test Reliability, Test Validity

Duffelmeyer, Frederick A. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Argues that, while computers make the computation of readability formulas easy, teachers should not forget the need to apply judgment and common sense to the results. Discusses RIXRATE, a computerized version of the Rix index and compares its performance to that of the Rauding Scale. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Microcomputers, Readability

Davenport, Betty M. – Reading Horizons, 1986
Offers a case study of how one teacher used readability formulas to select the most appropriate materials for her students. Presents 10 suggestions that the teacher followed to avoid being tyrannized by the formulas. (FL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Diagnosis

Bamberger, Richard; Rabin, Annette T. – Reading Teacher, 1984
Describes recent Austrian research concerning readability formulas, especially the Swedish Lix formula. Describes a prototype for a system of evaluating the individual variables that contribute to the difficulty of student reading materials. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Readability, Readability Formulas

Carver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that the Degrees of Reading Power test is not a valid tool for its main purpose, matching students to appropriate texts, because the test's units of text difficulty are not uniformly comparable to the test's units used to reflect a reader's ability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability

Bormuth, John R. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Explains significant but accounted for factors that affected the validity of the Degrees of Reading Power Test. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Prior Learning, Readability, Readability Formulas

Nguyen, Liem T.; Henkin, Alan B. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Describes a revised readability formula for Vietnamese that differentiates between Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese compound words and discusses its validity and reliability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Research
Davison, Alice – 1986
Defining readability in both the narrow sense of formula use and refinement and the broader sense of the processing and comprehension of language, this paper argues for the need for more research focusing on readability as a way of improving the match between reader and text. Following a brief introduction, the paper reviews current readability…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English, Language Processing, Non English Speaking
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles include studies of an informal reading inventory; an item-type to test phonic and context skills; reliability of residual gain scores based on means for a standardized reading achievement measure; alternatives to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education