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Direct linkFrancis, David J.; Santi, Kristi L.; Barr, Christopher; Fletcher, Jack M.; Varisco, Al; Foorman, Barbara R. – Journal of School Psychology, 2008
This study examined the effects of passage and presentation order on progress monitoring assessments of oral reading fluency in 134 second grade students. The students were randomly assigned to read six one-minute passages in one of six fixed orders over a seven week period. The passages had been developed to be comparable based on readability…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Readability Formulas, Grade 2, Reading Tests
Download full textOlmstead, Phyllis M. – 1993
A study analyzed the readability of seven central Florida newspapers (one of which is a college newspaper) and "USA Today.""Rightwriter," a grammar checker and readability computer program, was used to evaluate front page articles for each of the eight newspapers. The readability formulas invoked in the readability program…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Content Analysis, Correlation, Higher Education
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
Peer reviewedTefki, Chaffai – Journal of Documentation, 1987
This review of findings in the field of readability research discusses the differences in meaning between readability and legibility, examines the origins and developments of readability formulas for children's and adult materials, and describes several of the best-known formulas for English-language materials. (46 references) (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Correlation, Predictor Variables, Readability
Peer reviewedDanielson, Wayne A.; Lasorsa, Dominic L. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Investigates whether novelistic prose can be dated by considering marked stylistic changes that occurred over the past 240 years. Finds a positive correlation between publication date and stylistic markers of sentence length, word length, rare punctuation, and word shortening or informality. Argues that this process can form the basis for new…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Correlation, Eighteenth Century Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature
Smith, Dean R.; And Others – 1989
A three-part correlational study examined the explanatory power of the Lexile theory of reading comprehension, which was based on the semantic and syntactic components of prose. Correlations were performed between the item difficulties of nine nationally normed reading comprehension tests and computer generated difficulties which were reported in…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level
