Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3 |
Descriptor
Measurement Techniques | 16 |
Readability Formulas | 16 |
Reading Research | 16 |
Readability | 11 |
Difficulty Level | 7 |
Reading Comprehension | 6 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 4 |
Reading Materials | 3 |
Reading Processes | 3 |
Reading Tests | 3 |
Adult Literacy | 2 |
More ▼ |
Source
Online Submission | 3 |
Journal of Reading | 1 |
Journal of Reading Behavior | 1 |
Journal of Research and… | 1 |
Viewpoints in Teaching and… | 1 |
Author
Anderson, Jonathan | 1 |
Braun, Carl | 1 |
Bruce, Bertram | 1 |
Carver, Ronald P. | 1 |
Davison, Alice | 1 |
Davison, Alice, Ed. | 1 |
DuBay, William H. | 1 |
DuBay, William H., Ed. | 1 |
Fry, Edward | 1 |
Harris, Albert J. | 1 |
Hiebert, Elfrieda H. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Reports - Research | 7 |
Information Analyses | 4 |
Journal Articles | 4 |
Reports - Evaluative | 3 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 3 |
Guides - Non-Classroom | 2 |
Books | 1 |
Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
Opinion Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Adult Education | 2 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 2 |
Elementary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
Sweden | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Hiebert, Elfrieda H. – Online Submission, 2011
A focus of the Common Core State Standards/English Language Arts (CCSS/ELA) is that students become increasingly more capable with complex text over their school careers. This focus has redirected attention to the measurement of text complexity. Although CCSS/ELA suggests multiple criteria for this task, the standards offer a single measure of…
Descriptors: Reading Research, State Standards, Information Sources, Achievement Rating
Harris, Albert J.; Jacobson, Milton D. – 1980
This paper describes the Harris-Jacobson Readability Formula A, a revision of a readability formula based on word lists from "Basic Elementary Reading Vocabularies." Section one of the paper discusses procedures for using the formula, including the selection of samples, scoring the variables, and applying the formula. The next section…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Measurement Techniques, Readability, Readability Formulas

Olson, Arthur V. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1986
This study examined the McCall-Crabbs Standard Test Lessons in Reading to determine whether selections of passages covered a sufficiently wide range of difficulty to warrant their use in developing readability formulas. The results, which find several readability formulas suspect, are discussed. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Measurement Techniques
Davison, Alice – 1985
A survey of the current research on readability formulas is presented in this paper, which distinguishes this research from research on the more general questions that surround formulas: What features of a text, particularly the language it is written in, make the text easy or difficult to read? and, What will predict that readers with particular…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Language Processing, Measurement Techniques, Readability
Holliday, William G.; Braun, Carl – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1979
This article describes readability assessment methods used in science education, summarizes reported readability estimates of science textbooks, and recommends strategies for reducing the readability load of such materials. (JMF)
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Memory, Readability, Readability Formulas
McEneaney, John E. – 1993
This paper describes and reports on the performance of six related artificial neural networks that have been developed for the purpose of readability analysis. Two networks employ counts of linguistic variables that simulate a traditional regression-based approach to readability. The remaining networks determine readability from "visual…
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques

Fry, Edward – Journal of Reading, 1990
Presents a readability formula suitable for passages from 40 to 99 words (provided they contain at least 3 sentences). (RS)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Techniques

Carver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1985
Rescales DRP-Difficulty (Degrees of Reading Power) into grade equivalent (GE) units using the estimated difficulty level values obtained from the Rauding Scale. Finds the revised scale is accurate to within one graded level for lower grade materials and to within two grade levels for upper grade materials. (MM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Equivalent Scores, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Anderson, Jonathan – 1981
"Lasbarhetsindex" ("Lix") is a readability formula developed in Sweden that holds promise for assessing text difficulty in other languages, including English. So far three separate studies have been conducted to test Lix with French and English texts, with German and English texts, and with Greek and English texts. In all three…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Difficulty Level, English, Foreign Countries
Selden, Ramsay – 1977
Readability estimates are usually based on measures of word difficulty and measures of sentence difficulty. Word difficulty is measured in two ways: by the structural size and complexity of words or by reference to phonomena of language use, such as word-list frequency or the regularity of spelling patterns. Sentence difficulty is measured only in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Patterns, Measurement Techniques, Readability
Siegel, Arthur I.; And Others – 1976
A previous report defined a series of 14 novel measures for determining the comprehensibility of English text on the basis of current psycholinguistic and Structure-of-Intellect concepts. That report not only suggested the potential usefulness of the measures but also conjectured about the feasibility of automating the calculation of these…
Descriptors: Adults, Armed Forces, Cognitive Processes, Computer Programs
Davison, Alice, Ed.; And Others – 1981
The papers included in this collection represent as closely as possible the content and organization of the oral presentations delivered at a March 1980 conference on the use of readability formulas. The papers discuss the following topics: (1) an introduction to the conference, with general remarks on the uses and criticism of readability…
Descriptors: Captions, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage
DuBay, William H. – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this book is to introduce the research on readability, defined here as reading ease. The first part of the book covers how people read. A series of national literacy surveys show that the average person in the U.S. and most other countries are adults of limited reading skills. For example, the average adult in the U.S. reads at the…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Rate, Reading Research
Bruce, Bertram; And Others – 1981
The failure of readability formulas can be attributed to three weaknesses in the formulas. First, they ignore or violate current knowledge about the reading process. Most formulas affect only sentence length and word difficulty while ignoring factors that influence text comprehensibility, such as cohesion, the number of inferences required, the…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Readability
DuBay, William H., Ed. – Online Submission, 2007
Early in the 20th century, educators began looking for scientific methods for matching texts with readers. Some of the best minds in education dedicated themselves to this task, including Edward L. Thorndike, William S. Gray, Ralph Tyler, Edgar Dale, Irving Lorge, and Jeanne S. Chall. The purpose of this book is to bring students of reading into…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Readability, Placement, Textbooks
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1 | 2