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Biersner, Robert J. – 1975
Reading Grade Levels (RGLs) of 185 Rate Training Manuals (RTMs) and 188 Non-Resident Career Courses (NRCCs) were determined using the Flesch Reading Ease Score. Results indicated that the majority of the RTMs and NRCCs were written at the lower college grade level. The RGLs vary widely within each RTM and NRCC, ranging from the seventh grade to…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Military Science, Performance Factors, Postsecondary Education
McKinlay, Bruce – 1971
The purpose of the report was to examine the readability of the Occupational Information Access System (OIAS) QUEST questionnaire and the validity of independent client use of the questionnaire as an information gathering device. Readability formulas rate the QUEST questionnaire "easy" or "fairly easy" and they rank the…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Information Systems, Information Utilization, Occupational Information
Download full textFroese, Victor – 1971
The validity of the Dale-Chall Readability ratings for sixth-grade science textbooks when compared to an independent criterion of language difficulty expressed in cloze units was examined. The Canadian Lorge-Thorndike IQ Test and the Canadian Test of Basic Skills, Vocabulary and Comprehension subtests, were administered to 366 sixth graders. Mean…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Correlation
