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Rahmawati, Laili Etika; Sulistyono, Yunus – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
Nowadays, text readability is of great importance. Simple but very often ignored, readability statistics can provide information about the level of difficulty of the readability of particular documents and increase an evaluator's credibility. Hence, this research aims to examine the readability index of the test instrument for BIPA (Bahasa…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Readability, Reading Achievement, Test Construction
DuBay, William H. – Online Submission, 2004
The principles of readability are in every style manual. Readability formulas are in every writing aid. What is missing is the research and theory on which they stand. This short review of readability research spans 100 years. The first part covers the history of adult literacy studies in the U.S., establishing the stratified nature of the adult…
Descriptors: Readability, Adult Literacy, Readability Formulas, Reading Achievement

Carver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that the Degrees of Reading Power test is not a valid tool for its main purpose, matching students to appropriate texts, because the test's units of text difficulty are not uniformly comparable to the test's units used to reflect a reader's ability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability
Allison, Stan; And Others – 1995
A group of adult education teachers sought to determine if a readability formula applied to classroom materials provided a match with student reading levels. Cloze tests were used to determine whether students were able to understand the material. In three of the eight samples, the Cloze test showed that the readability test did not accurately…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, High School Equivalency Programs
Manning, Maryann; And Others – 1986
The reading achievement test scores of 239 low-income, southern, urban black students in grades three through eight were compared with their ability to comprehend the social studies books used in their classrooms. Achievement scores were obtained from the reading subtests of the Stanford Achievement Tests. A cloze passage was developed based on…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Black Students, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education
Snyder, Jon; And Others – 1993
A pilot study explored the nature of the relationship between test and classroom evidence and considered how these different sources of evidence were used in assessing and promoting student growth and development in reading. Test estimates of third-grade children in two public elementary programs in New York City were compared with estimates of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, Grade 3