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Direct linkWissinger, Daniel R.; Ciullo, Stephen P.; Shiring, Elizabeth J. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
We used a design-based research model to examine a historical literacy intervention in Grade 6 classrooms. This article describes the results across 2 separate instructional cycles and for students grouped into 4 categories: (a) high-achieving students (n = 23 and n = 24 for Cycle I and Cycle II, respectively), (b) average-achieving students (n =…
Descriptors: Intervention, Literacy Education, History, Essays
Perkins, Kyle – 1982
A formula for assessing style is described and applied to compositions written by adult students of English as a second language. Style is defined as the total effect of what is done by a writer in the composing process, including choice of words, organization, and sentence and paragraph strategies. Earlier attempts to quantify style are reviewed.…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Grammar
Peer reviewedDuffy, Thomas M.; Kabance, Paula – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
The present findings imply that a readability formula is not an effective writing production criterion, even when the writer does not deliberately write to the formula. Comprehensibility of text might be better controlled through the proper use of the transformer concept (MacDonald-Ross and Waller). (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Difficulty Level
Download full textSpiegel, Glenn; Campbell, John J. – 1985
The Flesch readability index yields meaningful information about the responses of readers to texts. Because the formula is so simple, a group of English teachers wrote a program in BASIC that would count some obvious surface features of a text and calculate Flesch scores. Among the programing problems encountered were counting words (taking into…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Zakaluk, Beverly L., Ed.; Samuels, S. Jay, Ed. – 1988
Designed to appeal to students who want a short but up-to-date overview, researchers who are interested in a critical appraisal, and consumers who would like to know what leaders in the field think, this collection of articles highlights the changes that have occurred in readability research from the past to the present and makes predictions about…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Material Development
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1984
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effect of writing instruction on reading comprehension and story writing ability; (2) eighth grade remedial students' concepts about reading and writing; (3) the effect of a…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
