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Redish, Janice C. – 1979
As part of the evaluation of four different versions of a patient package insert (PPI) for diazepam (Valium) created by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the content, organization, language, and design of the PPIs were compared. One PPI was a short prose piece with clear organization that did not particularly highlight warnings or, indeed,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Design, Differences
Ryan, Gary T. – 1978
Results of a study to analyze factors affecting critical reading are reported. The factors are readability of textual material, pupil intelligence, and motivation. Passages from U.S. history textbooks, a critical reading and literal comprehension test, and a standard measure of student motivation were administered to 207 senior high school…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, History Textbooks, Intelligence, Readability
Download full textJacob, Evelyn; Crandall, Jo Ann – 1979
In a response to the Mikulecky and Diehl examination of work-related literacy, this paper points out the need for data based on ethnographic approaches to research and more realistic assessments of text difficulty. Also suggested are questions to which future research might respond: How much of functional literacy is really functional competency?…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Functional Reading, Job Skills, Readability Formulas
TATHAM, SUSAN M. – 1968
THE EFFECT OF FREQUENTLY USED ORAL LANGUAGE PATTERNS IN WRITTEN MATERIAL ON THE READING COMPREHENSION OF FOURTH GRADERS WAS EXAMINED. RUDDELL'S FREQUENCY PATTERNS WERE USED. TWO PASSAGES WERE CONSTRUCTED -- THE FIRST WITH 4 HIGH FREQUENCY PATTERNS (PASSAGE A) AND THE SECOND WITH 4 LOW FREQUENCY PATTERNS (PASSAGE B). FACTORS WITHIN THE PASSAGES…
Descriptors: Classification, Grade 4, Intelligence Quotient, Language Patterns
Courtney, Brother Leonard – 1968
Studies representative of research in content area reading provide extensive but inconclusive evidence of the extent and effectiveness of reading in the content areas. Some of the studies reviewed in this paper illustrate gains made through special instruction in reading in the content areas. They point up the need to integrate reading instruction…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Factual Reading, Interpretive Reading, Readability
Hardyck, Curtis D. – 1968
The development of reading ability and the nature of reading processes after the ability has been developed were investigated. A theoretical model of reading ability development was systematically tested by investigating the importance of muscular and auditory feedback in the initial stages, by investigating the relationship of vocalization and…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Feedback, High School Students
Henry, G. – 1977
Some 2700 Belgian students (grades five through twelve) participated in this study of the relationships between linguistic features of passages and passage readability estimated from cloze procedures. Clozed versions of each of 60 test passages were prepared and administered to students at various grade levels. Twenty-five linguistic features of…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Difficulty (Inherent), Readability
Johnson, Roger E. – 1975
An evaluation of elementary social studies textbooks indicates that eight factors are making textbooks harder to read. These factors are: (1) the reading level of the book and/or the range of reading levels within it; (2) long sentences and/or too many concepts within a sentence or paragraph; (3) the use of vague terms, technical vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Educational Problems, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Readability
Moll, Joy Kaiser – 1975
Critical to the youthful user of the library is his comprehension of subject headings. This study undertook an investigation of two aspects of the subject headings for juvenile literature: first, an analysis of the vocabulary levels employed in the four systems of subject headings currently in use; second, a specific analysis of the Machine…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Childrens Literature, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Bessemer, David W.; Jenkins, Charles M. – 1972
Conceptualizations of the reading process and the nature of comprehension are discussed in relation to the Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) Beginning Reading Program. A method of syntactic analysis is proposed to help identify segments of meaning in reading materials. Components for comprehension assessment and instruction based on auch an…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Readability, Reading Comprehension
Froese, Victor – 1974
This study investigated the feasibility of using only the McCracken Word List (MWL), a subtest of the Standard Reading Inventory (SRI), rather than the entire SRI to determine functional grade placement in reading. The MWL is one of the few word lists with well-documented reliability and validity. In addition, the MWL has been shown to be highly…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Predictive Measurement, Readability
Riverside Research Inst., New York, NY. – 1973
This feasibility study for developing a measure of effectiveness in reading contains five sections. "The Need and Requirements for a Measure of Effectiveness in Reading" presents the problem, functional specifications for a measure of effectiveness in reading, the minimum number of tasks required to uild an effectiveness measure, approaches to the…
Descriptors: Readability, Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
Sticht, Thomas G. – 1970
The reading difficulty levels of publications in five military occupational specialities (MOSs) were determined by the Flesch and Dale-Chall readability formulas. Readability levels were compared with the reading abilities of low and average mental aptitude men working in the MOSs. The comparison indicates that, in all MOSs, the average…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Enlisted Personnel, Instructional Materials, Intelligence
Tierney, Robert J. – 1974
This study attempted to determine whether the findings of psycholinguists to syntax and reading comprehension could be generalized to children of other English-speaking cultures. Specifically, the influence of material written at different levels of syntactic maturity (according to the T-unit analysis) upon the reading comprehension of selected…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Language Acquisition
Price, Henry Thomas – 1972
This experiment attempted to provide some insight into the effect of three newspaper design complexity variables on the readership and comprehension of news stories and on judgments of the interestingness and pleasingness of the page designs using the three complexity variables: (1) horizontal and vertical headline pattern; (2) horizontal and…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Journalism, Layout (Publications)
