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Peer reviewedBormuth, 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
Peer reviewedBormuth, John R. – Visible Language, 1974
Outlines some of the arguments that favor accelerating the development of the technology of readability in developing nations. (RB)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Higher Education, Literacy Education, Readability
Download full textBormuth, John R. – 1969
The studies reported here are part of a research program whose purpose is to increase the effectiveness with which students acquire knowledge from written instructional materials. The studies had both a basic and an applied objective. The basic objective was to obtain evidence upon which to base a theory of the processes involved in language…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Instructional Materials, Intellectual Development, Readability
Peer reviewedBormuth, John R. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
Analyzes the concept of literacy for the purpose of identifying the parameters that must be specified in literacy definitions, identifies related measurement problems, and describes literacy assessment procedures currently available. (RB)
Descriptors: Definitions, Literacy, Measurement Techniques, Performance Criteria
Bormuth, John R. – Reading Res Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Ability, Age, Cloze Procedure, Factor Analysis
Bormuth, John R. – 1968
Procedures and findings of three reading comprehension studies are reported. The first study compared cloze readability test scores for 130 pairs of students (grade 3 through college) with scores indicating the information gained from reading. Students gained little or no information when they could not answer more than 25 percent of the cloze…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Readability
Bormuth, John R. – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Uses cloze test and readability formulas to determine whether traditional levels of readability are adequate measures of reading comprehension. Bibliography. (MD)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Age Differences, Cloze Procedure, Individual Differences
Bormuth, John R. – 1977
After considering various estimates of the extent to which there is a "literacy problem" in the United States, this paper develops an econometric model of the literacy program. Defining the volume of literacy as the total amount of information that people exchange through the materials they want or need to use, the volume of literacy is seen to be…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary 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
