
	Where results make sense

Topic: Readability

Related Topics

Life in prison

Proposition 215

Satanists

Cassia

Muskegon

SGI Fuel

Honfleur

PAP

Anatomy in the School of Bologna

Grunge music

Nuruddin Farah

Kings (drinking game)

Nagapattinam

Gothaer Waggonfabrik

Epifanio de los Santos Avenue

	Readability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Readability is a measure of the accessibility of a piece of writing.
		Readability tests are formulas designed to give a rough indication of a passage's readability.
		Since most readability tests do not factor in meaning or grammar, they should not be considered definitive measures of readability.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Readability (464 words)

	[No title]
		Readability tests, which are mathematical formulas, were designed to assess the suitability of books for students at particular grade levels or ages.
		The very first readability study was a response to demands by junior high school science teachers to provide them with books which let them teach scientific facts and methods rather than get bogged down in teaching the science vocabulary necessary to understand the texts.
		Readability tests cannot tell you whether the information in the text is written in a way to interest the reader, nor can they tell you whether reader has sufficient background information to appreciate the new information provided in the text.
	www.plainlanguagenetwork.org /stephens/readability.html (3425 words)

	Effects of Peer Review and Editing on the Readability [Peer review, July 13 JAMA. 1994;272:119-121] (c) AMA 1996
		Measurements.--Assessment of readability by means of two previously validated indexes: the Gunning fog index (units of readability in the fog index roughly correlate to years of education) and the Flesch reading ease score.
		Readability is defined as "the ease of understanding or comprehension due to the style of writing."[3] Quantitative measurements of readability began in the 1920s, and readability formulas have been applied to newspapers, magazines, textbooks, grant applications, and other printed media.[3] [4]
		Studies of readability in other contexts have shown correlations between readability, as measured by these indexes, and readership and comprehension.[3,4] Readability may be an important factor in physicians' ability to use information in medical journals to improve their care of patients.
	www.ama-assn.org /public/peer/7_13_94/pv3083x.htm (1801 words)

	Readability: Reading/Writing Tools for Measurement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Readability begins with text features known to be helpful for predicting the difficulty of material for a certain group of readers.
		It is important to note that one of the flaws in the formulas, as is often pointed out, is that the classic formula counts numbers of words and numbers of sentences, and the number of syllables may not correlate with either of these two factors.
		Discourse analysis, an area known to be pertinent to readability, has made great progress in the last ten years or so in the development of text analysis systems that examine factors in the text and certain aspects of reader activity during the process of deriving meaning from print.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/7/Articles/11.htm (4039 words)

	The Fry Readability Program
		I also looked at the readability levels for the passages of the Neale Reading Analysis (Neale, 1989) and found that these were within about one year of the comprehension norms.
		Readability is not just the result of word and sentence length and you can find out more from an excellent on-line article written by Keith Johnson.
		This is practical as well as academically-based (with references) and looks at a number of readability measures with their benefits and drawbacks.
	www.educational-psychologist.co.uk /fry_readability_program.htm (367 words)

	Inspired2Write - Free Reprint Article - Cut the Fog!: The Readability Factor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Readability is about how clear your message is and how easy it is for an average reader to understand.
		Readability levels are based on the average reading skills of people who've completed different stages of education, e.g., an average 14-year-old, a first-year college student, a college graduate.
		This level of readability was appropriate because Wordweb is read by writers of all ages, many of whom speak English as a foreign language.
	www.inspired2write.com /sjl/sjl1.html (1406 words)

	EyeWire: Magazine: Columns: Robin Williams: Improving Readability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Readability is one key element of printed text that typographers strive to maximize - and so should you.
		Readability refers to whether an extended amount of text - such as an article, book, or annual report - is easy to read.
		The most readable typefaces are the classic, oldstyle serif faces, either remakes of the original ones or new faces built on oldstyle characteristics.
	www.eyewire.com /magazine/columns/robin/readability (385 words)

	Readability formulas
		Readability measures are primarily based on factors such as the number of words in the sentences and the number of letters or syllables per word (i.e., as a reflection of word frequency).
		Readability measures guide the construction of textbooks such that the readability conforms to the intended grade level.
		Readability scores are based on the surface characteristics of the text.
	csep.psyc.memphis.edu /cohmetrix/readabilityresearch.htm (687 words)

	Testing The Readability Of Web Page Colors
		Subjects were asked to rate the readability of the sample text blocks on a visual analog scale of 'impossible to read' to 'effortless to read' as shown in Figure 2.
		Low readability ratings were observed to be associated with brightness differences close to zero, and ratings were found to increase as the distance from the brightness difference to zero increased.
		This provides support to the theory that readability ratings are higher for images which contain a greater difference in the brightness of the text and background, regardless of the direction of this difference.
	www.aprompt.ca /WebPageColors.html (4047 words)

	Readability as Applied to An ABE Assessment Instrument - Page 2
		Many readability formulas have been developed as a result of research into factors within writing that correlated highly with style difficulty.
		His Readability Chart was intended for 5.5 to 15-year reading ages but has been extended to cover material for adults.
		Use of readability formulas for writing adult materials to a desired reading level, matching readability levels of material to the reader's skill level, and use of these concepts in adult education was documented by Abram (1981).
	www.nald.ca /fulltext/report4/rep31-35/rep34-02.htm (1007 words)

	Readability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Readability is intended to be a metric applied at the sentence-level.
		This requirement is due to the fact that the method, although called readability method, measures the appropriate overall contextual cohesiveness" (Battelle report).
		Readability is a quality of the output that can be measured independently of the source language.
	www.isi.edu /natural-language/mteval/html/172.html (494 words)

	Lost in the Fine Print: Readability of Financial Privacy Notices
		Readability analyses of 60 financial privacy notices found that they are written at a 3rd-4th year college reading level, instead of the junior high school level that is recommended for materials written for the general public.
		One of the factors involved in readability is the number of words per sentence.
		The readability analysis shows that the notices were not written in a clear and concise writing style.
	www.privacyrights.org /ar/GLB-reading.htm (2244 words)

	Glossary-r
		Readability is often ranked for the average population of fluent English speakers of approximately ninth grade reading level.
		Readability is related to Reading level since it is assumed that older and more educated readers can better understand material written in more complicated forms (which, in themselves, can lower readability).
		Although it does not use too many difficult (to read) theological words, or the elevated vocabulary of the NEB, or the sophisticated idioms of TM, the vocabulary of the ISV is uneven, with quite a number of words not in the typical vocabulary of the average target population.
	www.geocities.com /bible_translation/glossr.htm (1208 words)

	Juicy Studio: Readability Test
		Readability is the measure of how easy it is to read and comprehend a document.
		Readability tests were first developed in the 1920s in the United States.
		Being mathematically based, readability tests are unable to determine the likelihood that the document is comprehensible, interesting, or enjoyable.
	juicystudio.com /services/readability.php (1002 words)

	Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An obvious use for readability tests is in the field of education.
		These readability statistics are used in the KWord program from KDE.
		These readability statistics are used in the Microsoft Word program from Microsoft Corporation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flesch-Kincaid_Readability_Test (719 words)

	AHNCUR
		Legibility, and in turn readability, of the VDT is very important for efficient communication.
		Thus, readability of any text presented in short-wave light will be decreased.
		A non-proportional font gives the same amount of space for an 'i' that it gives for an 'o,' while proportional fonts give an 'i' a smaller space than an 'o.' Courier New is a non-proportional font, and Times New Roman and Arial are proportional fonts.
	hubel.sfasu.edu /research/AHNCUR.html (3399 words)

	Readability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Also, readability does not by itself guarantee comprehension by a particular audience, but, combined with other factors like appropriateness of the subject matter, it can greatly enhance comprehension.
		Readability is measured using a readability index that correlates the reading ease of a piece of writing with an academic reading level.
		There are other readability indices as well, including the Fog Index, the SMOG Index, and the Flesch-Kincaid Index.
	agcomwww.tamu.edu /market/training/power/readabil.html (799 words)

	Readability and reading ages of school science text-books.
		Readability is concerned with the problem of matching between reader and text.
		The third factor affecting readability is concerned with the words and sentences chosen by an author.
		Readability formulae will give the same value to each of these sentences even though the first example is probably the most readable.
	www.timetabler.com /reading.html (3995 words)

	Past Issues - UI Design Newsletter
		The first readability formula was developed over 80 years ago, and a number of formulas have been developed since that time.
		A document classified as highly readable solely on the basis of a readability formula could be a disorganized disaster—or contain no content at all.
		Coke (1976) provided evidence that readability was not as important when readers were looking for specific information as it was when users had to remember that information.
	www.humanfactors.com /downloads/jun02.asp (1764 words)

	Northwest Center for Holocaust Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Before any curriculum is implemented into a classroom, educators must first be aware of the difficulty or ease of the readability of the texts students will be asked to read.
		First, a formulaic readability assessment, known as the Fry Readability Graph, was formally conducted by Western Washington University Secondary Education students.
		readability refers to the difficulty or ease with which a text is read.
	www.wce.wwu.edu /Resources/NWCHE/readability/index.shtml (754 words)

	Readability Tests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The main function of readability tests is to give you a quick assessment about the density of your writing.
		Readability tests cannot tell you how easily a reader can understand the information in the text.
		This index computes readability based on the average number of syllables per word and the average number of words per sentence.
	developer.gnome.org /documents/style-guide/usability-readability.html (365 words)

	Readability analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Readability statistics assess variables including the average number of words per sentence, average length of sentences, number of syllables per word, and so on, to derive a formulaic estimate of the ``readability'' of the text.
		Thus, there is no guarantee that a text that a readability test identifies as easy to understand actually is readable.
		Because bc is interactive and reads commands from its standard input, the basic readability variables are substituted into a here-document which is fed to bc, and the output is captured in another environment variable.
	docsrv.sco.com:507 /en/OSUserG/_Readability_analysis.html (546 words)

	Website Readability -Is Your Audience Listening? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Because most readability formulas consider only these two factors, these formulas do not reveal why written material is difficult to read and comprehend.
		As a general rule, it is better to write a document at a readability level that is below the reading skill level of the intended audience.
		By comparing the calculated readability of a document to the reading skill level of typical users, a writer can estimate whether a document has a good chance of being read and understood.
	www.ergoweb.com /news/detail.cfm?id=559 (485 words)

	Readability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are many definitions of readability, but for most, readability involves both comprehension and legibility.
		The more words successfully predicted by the reader, the more readable the material is for that reader, indicating more commonality (in knowledge and language) between the reader and the writer.
		Norms have been developed indicating the minimum percentage of correct predictions necessary for a passage to be "readable" (Bormuth, 1965, 1966; Miller and Coleman, 1967; Peterson, Peters, and Paradis, 1972; Taylor, 1956).
	www.siue.edu /~jandris/it430034/readable.html (1332 words)

	Fry Readability Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I also worked out the readability levels for the passages of the Neale Reading Analysis (Neale, 1989) and found that these were also within about one year of the comprehension norms.
		Be cautious about claims that the reading abilities of UK children have shot up with the National Literacy Strategy - independent assessments indicate that they have not changed much at all (Mansell and Ward, 2003), and my advice would be to generally expect age-appropriate levels, with the normal range above and below this.
		If you're interested in evidence-based approaches to education, then have a look at my main site which has some other things to use, as well as some articles and information.
	www.psych-ed.org /Download/Fryra.htm (456 words)

	CDC - OCSO - Human Research Protection Office - SMOG Readability Formula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The method is quick, simple to use and particularly useful for shorter materials, e.g., a study's information pamphlet or consent form.
		Garcia, W.F. Assessing readability for Spanish as a second language: The Fry graph and cloze procedure.
		Ibid: page 59 cites a 1979-81 test of the method conducted by Patient Learning Associates, Inc., of Potomac, Maryland, in which the SMOG formula performed exceptionally when used to grade materials presented to 291 individuals graded by accepted methods as having reading levels between the 4th and 16th grades.
	www.cdc.gov /od/ads/smog.htm (489 words)

	Readabilty - making pages easy to read by design
		Sans-serif fonts are more readable than serifs on pixel-based displays, because they are simpler, which translates well to low-resolutions.
		The most readable sans-serif fonts are broad, providing ample space between letters, which facilitates recognition.
		To draw attention to a whole line, consider using a coloured background, or emboldening, which are less detrimental to readability than underlines or italics.
	www.webdesignfromscratch.com /readability.cfm (1189 words)

	Readability & Legibility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Readability is considerably more complex, because the act of reading is not based on the decipherment of the shape of individual letters but recognition of their combination in wordshapes.
		In 1999 at the University of Reading, he wrote a doctoral thesis, entitled "Knowledge construction in typography: the case of legibility research and the legibility of sans serif typefaces".
		The Poynter fonts was published in 1996 as "the readability series" for use in newspapers.
	cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/readability.html (2475 words)

	Readability Analysis: Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While there are numerous web-based English readability measurement tools, there are remarkably few applications available for testing the readability of text written in other languages.
		When creating a web page, it is important that the author keep his or her audience in mind so that the text that is displayed is not too difficult for the reader to understand.
		While it might seem that readability is a subjective characteristic, research has been done to create algorithms that quantitatively assess the readability of a text.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/s2s/latest/readability1/src/index.cgi?lang=Spanish&content=home (411 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)