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Peer reviewedMeyer, Bonnie J. F.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1993
Presents a model to predict readability of documents encountered by older adults. Finds a correlation of 0.54 between the readability scores for test items predicted by the model and the percentage of older adults correctly answering those items. Finds that more difficult test items were correlated more highly with fluid intelligence abilities,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Models, Older Adults, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedHatcher, Peter – Journal of Research in Reading, 2000
Rates 200 Reading Recovery books on five variables thought to represent "semantic,""syntactic," and "phonic" features of text. Finds the variables accounted for 83% of book level variance. Supports the validity of the Reading Recovery book levels. Suggests that the formula can be used by teachers to grade children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Predictor Variables, Primary Education, Reading Material Selection
