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| Carver, Ronald P. | 1 |
| Davenport, Betty M. | 1 |
| Henkin, Alan B. | 1 |
| Koenke, Karl | 1 |
| Lange, Bob | 1 |
| Nguyen, Liem T. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 5 |
| ERIC Publications | 2 |
| Reports - Research | 2 |
| Guides - Non-Classroom | 1 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
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| Degrees of Reading Power Test | 1 |
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Peer reviewedKoenke, Karl – Reading Teacher, 1987
Looks at ERIC documents that deal with readability concerns. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedDavenport, Betty M. – Reading Horizons, 1986
Offers a case study of how one teacher used readability formulas to select the most appropriate materials for her students. Presents 10 suggestions that the teacher followed to avoid being tyrannized by the formulas. (FL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedLange, Bob – Reading Teacher, 1982
Examines the arguments against the indiscriminate use of readability formulas. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Readability Formulas, Reading Diagnosis
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
Peer reviewedNguyen, Liem T.; Henkin, Alan B. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Describes a revised readability formula for Vietnamese that differentiates between Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese compound words and discusses its validity and reliability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Readability Formulas, Reading Research
