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Direct linkCrossley, Scott A.; Greenfield, Jerry; McNamara, Danielle S. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
Many programs designed to compute the readability of texts are narrowly based on surface-level linguistic features and take too little account of the processes which a reader brings to the text. This study is an exploratory examination of the use of Coh-Metrix, a computational tool that measures cohesion and text difficulty at various levels of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Readability, Psycholinguistics, Construct Validity
Gottesman, Ruth L.; And Others – Diagnostique, 1988
Scores on the Einstein Assessment of School-Related Skills for 164 elementary-level children were correlated with reading and mathematics test scores, teacher ratings, and presence/absence of school-diagnosed learning difficulty. Results showed the Einstein was significantly related to achievement and generally predicted learning difficulty as…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Construct Validity, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Whetzel, Deborah L.; McDaniel, Michael A. – Intelligence, 2006
In their book, IQ and the Wealth of Nations, Lynn and Vanhanen ([Lynn, R. and Vanhanen, T. (2002). IQ and the wealth of nations. Westport, CT: Praeger.]) proposed the hypothesis that "the intelligence of the populations has been a major factor responsible for the national differences in economic growth and for the gap in per capita income between…
Descriptors: Prediction, Intelligence Quotient, Democracy, Economic Development
