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Determining Readability: How to Select and Apply Easy-to-Use Readability Formulas to Assess the Difficulty of Adult Literacy Materials
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Burke, Victoria; Greenberg, Daphne – Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 2010
There are many readability tools that instructors can use to help adult learners select reading materials. We describe and compare different types of readability tools: formulas calculated by hand, tools found on the Web, tools embedded in a word processing program, and readability tools found in a commercial software program. Practitioners do not…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Readability, Reading Material Selection, Comparative Analysis
Assessment of Readability and Learning of Easy-to-Read Educational Health Materials Designed and Written with the Help of Citizens by Means of Two Non-Alternative Methods
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Daghio, M. Monica; Fattori, Giuseppe; Ciardullo, Anna V. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2006
Objectives: We compared two non-alternative methods to assess the readability and learning of easy-to-read educational health materials co-written by physicians, educators and citizens. Methods: Data from seven easy-to-read materials were analyzed. Readability formulae, and ad hoc data on readability and learning were also computed. Results: The…
Descriptors: Readability, Health Materials, Evaluation Methods, Functional Reading