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Luo, Dehong; Gong, Jing; Li, Yifei – Educational Studies, 2022
Readability formulae have been used to predict text difficulty, but their construction has been challenged. Previous readability formula designers typically adopted correct responses to reading comprehension questions (RCQs) as dependent variables, but they did not assess the effect of linguistic predictors concerning RCQs in the formula. Thus,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Çetinkaya, Gökhan; Aydogan Yenmez, Arzu; Çelik, Tugba; Özpinar, Ilknur – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2018
This study aimed to investigate the readability of the fifth-, sixth, seventh and eighth-grade mathematics course books prepared in deference to the 2017 curriculum and distributed to schools by MEB. This study utilized the descriptive document analysis which is a qualitative research method. Readability of the mathematics course books were…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Textbooks, Difficulty Level
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Kasule, Daniel – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2011
This paper reports activities (as part of a university course in language teacher education on teaching reading) in which primary school student teachers (all ESL in-service teacher trainees) explored their own skills of determining textbook readability using an online software tool and a cloze test completed by two hundred and seventy-eight Grade…
Descriptors: Readability, Textbooks, Textbook Content, English (Second Language)