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Bolden, Bernadine J.; Stoddard, Ann – 1980
This study examined the effect of two ways of question phrasing as related to three styles of expository writing on the test performance of elementary school children. Multiple-choice questions were developed for sets of passages which were written using three different syntactic structures; and which had different levels of difficulty. The…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Kernel Sentences, Multiple Choice Tests
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
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Goldsmith, Robert H. – School Science and Mathematics, 1980
Reports on a study which attempted to determine the reading level of 70 filmstrips with captions that form logical sequences. Results indicate that the classroom teacher might want to use readability formulae in planning the use of filmstrips. (Author/SA)
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Media, Educational Research, Educational Resources
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