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Peer reviewedShelby, Annette N. – Management Communication Quarterly, 1992
Identifies major philosophical, methodological, and pedagogical issues in the controversy over the legitimacy and methodology of using statistical measures to assess the readability of documents. Explores the implications of the controversy for using numerical readability measures to assess written documents. Examines the pedagogical implications…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Readability, Readability Formulas
Peer reviewedChase, Clinton I. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1983
Proposition analysis was used to equate the text base of two essays with different readability levels. Easier reading essays were given higher scores than difficult reading essays. The results appear to identify another noncontent influence on essay test scores, leaving increasingly less variance for differences in content. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, Essay Tests, Higher Education
