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Guidelines to Writing or Rewriting Materials for Deaf Students with Special Emphasis on Syntax.

Rosenbloom, Betty – 1981

The manual is intended to help writers or adapters of instructional materials for deaf students. The first section examines difficulties in providing suitable reading material for deaf students. The problems in evaluating deaf students' reading levels are examined. Writers are cautioned to pay particular attention to syntax, vocabulary, and…

Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Idioms, Instructional Materials

Measuring Readability with a Computer: What We Can Learn.

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Spiegel, Glenn; Campbell, John J. – 1985

The Flesch readability index yields meaningful information about the responses of readers to texts. Because the formula is so simple, a group of English teachers wrote a program in BASIC that would count some obvious surface features of a text and calculate Flesch scores. Among the programing problems encountered were counting words (taking into…

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques