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Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that the Degrees of Reading Power test is not a valid tool for its main purpose, matching students to appropriate texts, because the test's units of text difficulty are not uniformly comparable to the test's units used to reflect a reader's ability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedNguyen, Liem T.; Henkin, Alan B. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Describes a revised readability formula for Vietnamese that differentiates between Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese compound words and discusses its validity and reliability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Research
