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| Carver, Ronald P. | 4 |
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Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Measurement Instruments, Readability
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1975
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Measurement Instruments, Readability
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1985
Rescales DRP-Difficulty (Degrees of Reading Power) into grade equivalent (GE) units using the estimated difficulty level values obtained from the Rauding Scale. Finds the revised scale is accurate to within one graded level for lower grade materials and to within two grade levels for upper grade materials. (MM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Equivalent Scores, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that the Degrees of Reading Power test is not a valid tool for its main purpose, matching students to appropriate texts, because the test's units of text difficulty are not uniformly comparable to the test's units used to reflect a reader's ability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability
