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Gamla, Wichien; Deerajviset, Poranee – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study aimed to compare the readability levels of the reading passages in the General Aptitude Test (GAT) and those of English textbooks for the Upper Secondary Level in Thailand. The corpus of the General Aptitude Tests (C-GAT) was compiled from 70 reading passages on GAT test papers from 2009-2021, and the corpus of English textbooks (C-ET)…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Misti Shelton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Uganda Baptist Seminary (UBS) is accredited by the Ugandan National Council for Higher Education and teaches church leaders from Uganda and its surrounding seven countries. The required language of educational instruction is English, although the students come from a multitude of different native languages. This research stems from a need to…
Descriptors: Churches, Multilingualism, Trend Analysis, Christianity
Chen, Ai-Hong; Buari, Noor Halilah; Jufri, Shauqiah – International Education Studies, 2017
Passages with continuous sentences are commonly used for the assessment of reading performance related to visual function, and rehabilitation in optometric practices. Passages created in native languages are crucial for a reliable interpretation in a real scenario. This study aimed to report the development of SAH Reading Passage Compendium…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Reading Achievement, Textbooks, Indonesian
DuBay, William H., Ed. – Online Submission, 2007
Early in the 20th century, educators began looking for scientific methods for matching texts with readers. Some of the best minds in education dedicated themselves to this task, including Edward L. Thorndike, William S. Gray, Ralph Tyler, Edgar Dale, Irving Lorge, and Jeanne S. Chall. The purpose of this book is to bring students of reading into…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Readability, Placement, Textbooks
Sonnenblick, Carol – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1982
Discusses a study of the readability of the prose passages of the General Educational Development (GED) Test in comparison with high school texts, adult reading materials, and commercial GED tests. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, High School Equivalency Programs, Readability
Sirois, Herman A.; Davis, Robert L. – 1983
Noting that traditional measures of textbook difficulty and traditional measures of student reading ability suffer from a lack of correspondence, this booklet deals with the problems of (1) identifying the levels of conceptual difficulty of text materials, (2) identifying students' abilities to understand text materials, (3) matching the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Readability
Kirkwood, Kristian J.; Wolfe, Richard G. – 1980
A study was conducted using standard open-ended cloze testing to establish a criterion for the utility of content reading passages for students in grades four, seven, and ten in the subject areas of language arts and social studies. Passages were selected from books, novels, and textbooks required in these courses. It was found that most of the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: (1) teacher self-assessment and analysis of feedback to student miscues during oral reading; (2) the humor found in basal readers appropriate to second and fourth grade students; (3) an…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basal Reading, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading