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The Fry Graph Wakes Up Student Writers
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Shepherd, James W.; Dickerson, Frances E. – Journal of Reading, 1977
The Fry Graph for Estimating Readability can be used to provide students with feedback concerning the complexity of their writing. (KS)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Readability, Secondary Education, Student Motivation
Using the Internet to Improve HRD Research: The Case of the Web-Based Delphi Research Technique to Achieve Content Validity of an HRD-Oriented Measurement
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Hatcher, Tim; Colton, Sharon – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to highlight the results of the online Delphi research project; in particular the procedures used to establish an online and innovative process of content validation and obtaining "rich" and descriptive information using the internet and current e-learning technologies. The online Delphi was proven to be an…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Readability, Research Methodology, Content Validity
Training Students in Assessment: Three Steps to a More Effective Web Site
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Arney, Janna B. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2006
Training students in assessment can not only help lighten grading load but also--and more importantly--equip students with a lifelong skill. The goal of educators in grading is to reinforce teaching concepts by identifying students' strengths and weaknesses. If educators require students to create Web site as a class project, this can become a…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Class Activities, Readability, Internet
Readability vs. Read-Ability: Instructional Design for Reading and the Content Area.
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
The Philosophy of Composition.
Hirsch, E. D., Jr. – 1977
Addressed to teachers of composition and to other professional students of prose, this book develops a philosophy of composition based on the nature and history of writing. Chapters discuss distinctive features of written speech, the normative character of written speech, progressive tendencies in the history of language and prose, refinement of…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Getting Students To Read Actively.
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Kitao, Kenji – Doshisha Studies in English, 1994
This article discusses Japanese students' difficulties in reading English, overviews some of the problems of college English textbooks, presents the results of research on the subject, and discusses characteristics of measures of readability. Teaching methods that have proven effective with Japanese students and activities for engaging students in…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
The Language of Beginning Reading Texts. Final Report.
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Simons, Herbert D.; Ammon, Paul R. – 1987
To weigh the negative effects of "primerese" against its supposedly improved readability, a study compared the reading of controlled basal stories with that of the same stories minimally rewritten into more natural language. Participants were 64 white, lower middle class first grade students selected from five classrooms (all with basal…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods