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Download full textBruce, 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
Chapman, L. John – 1986
To develop a new model of the reading process, a longitudinal study investigated the importance of the concepts of cohesion and register (fiction or nonfiction) in the assessment of text readability. Subjects, 436 8-year-olds (Cohort A), 474 10-year-olds (Cohort B), and 445 13-year-olds (Cohort C) from 23 urban and rural British schools--most of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Fiction
Coke, Esther U. – 1974
This study examined the adaptability of reading rate to passage difficulty under different conditions of task-induced processing. Sixteen experimental passages varying in subject matter and ranging from 85 to 171 words were selected from a set of 32 texts rated for comprehensibility. The eight easiest and eight hardest texts were selected. Another…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, High School Students, Readability, Reading
Peer reviewedOlshavsky, Jill Edwards – Reading Research Quarterly, 1976
Identifies strategies used by 24 tenth grade students to comprehend a short story, and relates the strategies to ability, interest, and writing style. (AA)
Descriptors: Grade 10, Readability, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Irwin, Judith Westphal – 1979
Recent research in text structure and comprehension has several important implications for readability theory and practice. First, text-level factors such as coherence and organization must be considered along with word-level and sentence-level factors when evaluating the readability of a specific set of materials or when attempting to construct…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Literature Reviews, Organization, Readability
Goodacre, Elizabeth J., Comp.; Bentley, Diana, Comp. – 1977
Separate listings of both ongoing and completed reading research in Great Britain between 1974 and 1977--including relevant language studies and research on spelling--are arranged alphabetically by researcher, reporting the research title, the institution at which the research was conducted, the years started and completed, and the type of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Foreign Countries, Indexes, Language Research
Peer reviewedO'Mara, Deborah A. – Journal of Reading, 1981
A review of the literature on the relationship between reading ability and mathematical ability shows the process of reading mathematics to be very different from the process of reading English prose. (AEA)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematical Vocabulary, Mathematics
Collins, Allan M.; And Others – 1977
This report describes the rationale and procedures for a series of studies related to reading tasks and reading texts. Children's reading tasks are examined in five strands of investigation: ability to read for meaning, ability to read for doing, ability to read for remembering, comprehension difficulties in skilled readers, and classroom…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Literature Reviews, Readability
Peer reviewedGoodacre, Elizabeth – Reading, 1980
Reports on reading research studies conducted in Great Britain during 1979, noting that two areas have attracted much more attention recently--reading comprehension and the importance of motivation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Literature Reviews, Readability
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 24 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the influence of additional supportive context upon the reader's ability to identify the main idea of a paragraph; effects of metaphors and paraphrases as…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Marshall S., Ed. – 1975
The aim of the panel on reading comprehension, sponsored by the National Institute of Education Conference on Studies in Reading, was to determine the influence of intellectual factors, general experiences with the world, knowledge specific to the particular reading task, and general decoding skills to successful reading performance. In addition,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conference Reports, Decoding (Reading), Functional Literacy
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 16 titles deal with the following topics: the effects of teacher-directed lessons on fourth and fifth grade students; self-concept and the comprehension of scientific reading; the readability of junior college textbooks; the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, College Students
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 12 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the relationship of text organization to readability and reading ability; how advance organizers, outlining, and other preparatory procedures affect learning and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Simons, Herbert D.; Ammon, Paul R. – 1987
To weigh the negative effects of "primerese" against its supposedly improved readability, a study compared the reading of controlled basal stories with that of the same stories minimally rewritten into more natural language. Participants were 64 white, lower middle class first grade students selected from five classrooms (all with basal…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
