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Fox, Dickie Lee – 1977
The study reported in this paper was designed to describe the differences between the reading-difficulty levels of primary textbooks used in first-semester freshman general studies courses and the reading skills of the students enrolled in those courses, and to compare the Flesch Reading Ease Formula with the SMOG Grading Formula. Separate…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading
Peer reviewedCline, Terry A. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1973
Descriptors: College Instruction, Community Colleges, Readability, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedSmith, Claire Garnier – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1977
To explore the readability of different levels of accounting textbooks, samples were selected from three high school, three vocational, and three college textbooks. The statistical tests conducted indicated that mean reading levels increased in difficulty as grade levels increased and that reading levels were considerably below grade levels of the…
Descriptors: Accounting, High Schools, Higher Education, Readability
