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Direct linkTsiokris, Konstantina T. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In this mixed method study I evaluated the relationship between teachers' perceptions of text complexity and data of text complexity assessed by standard and non-standard measures in the disciplines of English Language Arts (ELA), science, and social studies. For the quantitative portion of this study, I evaluated and correlated the text…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Correlation, Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewedVachon, Myra K.; Haney, Richard E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991
The objectives of this study were to develop a method for scoring the level of abstraction (LOA) of science reading material and explore its relationship with other methods for assessing curriculum materials. LOA is defined as the ratio of the nonconcrete concepts to the total number of concepts in a written passage expressed as a percent.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Content Area Reading, Developmental Stages, Educational Research
Graveel, John G.; Fribourg, Henry A. – Journal of Agronomic Education, 1987
Reported is a study designed to determine whether reading grade level (RGL) assessment techniques used for elementary and secondary education textbooks would discriminate among plant and soil science textbooks. The study was to select the RGL indices suited to quantify the readability of these sources, and to identify the factors affecting…
Descriptors: Agronomy, College Science, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
