Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Professor Jeanne S. Chall and her collaborators offer a breakthrough in readability measurement: an easy and straightforward qualitative method for the quick and accurate assessment of the reading difficulty of written materials in literature, social studies, and the sciences. Whereas quantitative readability measures are based only on two or three particular text features, the qualitative assessment is sensitive to the complete range of variables that differentiate the relative difficulty of written texts. This method is based on matching portions of the text to be assessed with text exemplars that have been rigorously tested and scaled for comprehension difficulty. Each of the six subject-specific sets of scaled exemplars in Popular Fiction, Literature, Social Studies Narrative, Social Studies Exposition, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences ranges in difficulty from grade 1 to college-graduate level
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [98]-106) and index.