Describes the Luiten, Ames, Bradley Readability Variation Method for estimating the variation within a text. Concludes that it is practical and relatively accurate. (HOD)

The binomial error model includes form-to-form difficulty differences as error variance and leads to Ruder-Richardson formula 21 as an estimate of reliability. If the form-to-form component is removed from the estimate of error variance, the binomial model leads to KR 20 as the reliability estimate. (Author/BW)

Examined predictors of college students' school-to-work transition difficulty, level of occupational knowledge, and crystallization of vocational self-concept. Occupational knowledge predicted whether students received at least one job offer before graduation and the total number of offers. Self-concept crystallization predicted at least one…

Examines the effects of integration complexity on the ability of child and adult listeners to integrate information. Increases in complexity adversely affected children's more than adults' resolution integration. The children's integration performance was affected by theme discontinuity and conferential complexity. (Author/AS)

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between a set of item characteristics and the difficulty of TOEFL[R] dialogue items. Identifying characteristics that are related to item difficulty has the potential to improve the efficiency of the item-writing process The study employed 365 TOEFL dialogue items, which were coded on 49…

In a study in 1996, the Consortium on Chicago School Research found that many classroom assignments in writing and mathematics made only modest academic demands on high school students. In this study, the nature of assignments in schools participating in the Annenberg Challenge reform effort in 1998-1999 was studied, to determine whether teachers…

This study used the "double easy-to-hard" paradigm to examine the hypothesis that the class inclusion (CI) task should be equivalent in relational complexity to the transitive inference (TI) problem. Participating in the study were 64 girls and 50 boys, with a mean age of 8 years, 6 months. Stimuli for easy versions of the tasks were…

Study was performed to determine if modifying a correspondence course through the simplification of materials, the inclusion of more illustrations, and the addition of audio supplementation could improve it as a training device to teach basic job information, especially to students possessing low verbal skills. (Author)

One finding is that the children in this study did not reach a level in the development of these concepts expected by Piaget of 9-year-olds. (Authors/CB)

Results suggest that modeling can indeed affect the complexity of children's sentences even in the absence of reinforcement or instructions of imitate. (Authors)

These results might be taken into account by the white teacher of black students in the selection and sequencing of visual experiences and media. (Authors)

Study was concerned with whether there is a practical difference between the reading ability of the eight, ninth, and tenth grade students and the readibility levels of their assigned textbooks in English, science and social studies. Findings show that most of the textbooks assigned were too difficult for effective instructional usage. (RB)

Purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between a subject's understanding of conjunctions and his reading comprehension; the difference in the difficulty of various conjunctions, and the relationship between understanding conjunctions and the demographic variables of socio-economic level, sex and intelligence. (RB)