Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Readability Formulas. Technical Report No. 392 / Richard C. Anderson and Alice Davison.

The problems arising from treating word and sentence complexity as the direct causes of difficulty in comprehension are surveyed in this paper from the perspective of readability formulas. The basic choices and assumptions made in the development and use of readability formulas are discussed in rela...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Authors:	Anderson, Richard C., Davison, Alice (Author)
Corporate Authors:	Illinois Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986.
Subjects:	Basal Reading. Readability. Readability Formulas. Reader Response. Reader Text Relationship. Reading Comprehension. Reading Instruction. Reading Interests. Reading Material Selection. Reading Processes. Reading Research. Research Problems.