Comparison of Flesch readability scores with a test of reading comprehension.
- 1 January 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Applied Psychology
- Vol. 40 (1) , 35-36
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0048505
Abstract
101 high school seniors, who had taken the Diagnostic Reading Test, read ten 100-word passages judged to be of equal interest but varied systematically in Reading Ease score from 5 to 95 at 10-point intervals and took brief objective-type Comprehension Tests on them. "In general, differences between mean comprehension scores for adjacent RE levels were significant at the 5% level. From these findings it is inferred the Flesch RE scores do adequately estimate the comparative difficulty in comprehension of "popular" reading material for a 17- to 18-year-old group.".This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- New Facts about ReadabilityCollege English, 1949