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Peer reviewedMeyer, Bonnie J. F.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1993
Presents a model to predict readability of documents encountered by older adults. Finds a correlation of 0.54 between the readability scores for test items predicted by the model and the percentage of older adults correctly answering those items. Finds that more difficult test items were correlated more highly with fluid intelligence abilities,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Models, Older Adults, Predictor Variables
Direct linkMcEneaney, John E. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
The purpose of this theoretical essay is to explore the limits of traditional conceptualizations of reader and text and to propose a more general theory based on the concept of a literacy agent. The proposed theoretical perspective subsumes concepts from traditional theory and aims to account for literacy online. The agent-based literacy theory…
Descriptors: Theories, Internet, Reader Text Relationship, Role
