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    FleschKincaid readability tests are readability tests designed to indicate how difficult a passage in English is to understand. There are two tests:...
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  • automated readability index (ARI) is a readability test for English texts, designed to gauge the understandability of a text. Like the FleschKincaid grade...
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  • reading tests is as follows: The accuracy of readability formulas increases when finding the average readability of a large number of works. The tests generate...
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  • list to be difficult. The formula was inspired by Rudolf Flesch's FleschKincaid readability test which used word-length to determine how difficult a word...
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  • FleschKincaid readability tests. Flesch advocated use of phonics rather than sight reading to enable students to sound-out unfamiliar words. Flesch was...
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  • Gunning fog index (redirect from Fogg Test)
    index from post-graduate to high school level. FleschKincaid readability tests Plain language Readability DuBay, William H. (23 March 2004). "Judges Scold...
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    The Raygor estimate graph is a readability metric for English text. It was developed by Alton L. Raygor, who published it in 1977. The US grade level...
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    The Fry readability formula (or Fry readability graph) is a readability metric for English texts, developed by Edward Fry. The grade reading level (or...
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  • SMOG (redirect from Smog readability)
    preferred measure of readability when evaluating consumer-oriented healthcare material.” The study found that “The Flesch-Kincaid formula significantly...
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  • Coleman–Liau index (category Readability tests)
    Coleman–Liau index is a readability test designed by Meri Coleman and T. L. Liau to gauge the understandability of a text. Like the FleschKincaid Grade Level, Gunning...
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  • Lexile (category Readability tests)
    texts are assigned a Lexile score, where lower scores reflect easier readability for texts and lower reading ability for readers. Lexile scores are assigned...
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  • The Spache readability formula is a readability test for writing in English, designed by George Spache. It works best on texts that are for children up...
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  • Chissom, B.S. (1975). Derivation of New Readability Formulas (Automated Readability Index, Fog Count, and Flesch Reading Ease formula) for Navy Enlisted...
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  • Fountas and Pinnell reading levels (category Readability tests)
    index (1975) Dale–Chall readability formula (1948) FleschKincaid readability tests Flesch reading ease [1975] FleschKincaid grade level [1975] FORCAST...
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  • Test Siegfried Flesch (1872–1939), Austrian Olympic medalist saber fencer Steve Flesch (born 1967), American golfer FleschKincaid readability tests Fleisch...
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  • Kincaid has split his career between higher education and working as a scientist for the U.S. military. He developed the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test...
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  • Linsear Write (category Readability tests)
    Write is a readability metric for English text, purportedly developed for the United States Air Force to help them calculate the readability of their technical...
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  • Prize and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the developer of the FleschKincaid readability tests, and the authors of the Mathematical Circles and Political...
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  • consumer readability) median FRE (Flesch Reading Ease) score was 34 (where over 60 is considered readable by consumers) median F-K (Flesch-Kincaid) score...
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    on a lexis that is less common than that of Canby. The Flesch and FleschKincaid readability test showed that Canby's text had more originality than Keller's...
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  • Benjamin Widom Fitts's law – Paul M. Fitts FleschKincaid readability test – Rudolf F. Flesch and J. Peter Kincaid Fletcher–Munson curves – Harvey Fletcher...
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    and former assistant dean at UCF J. Peter Kincaid, scientist who developed the FleschKincaid readability test for the U.S. Navy, and was the founding director...
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    Measure of Gobbledygook ("SMOG") and FleschKincaid readability tests (created by plain English advocate Rudolf Flesch) to evaluate reading levels. Within...
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    own reward, as stated in principle number six, there need not be quizzes, tests, or comprehension question afterwards, though there can and should be some...
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    replace phonics. Others advocated for a return to phonics, such as Rudolf Flesch in his book Why Johnny Can't Read (1955). The whole-word method received...
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    countries with the average readability of a press release by the WHO measured at 17.1 on the Flesch Kincaid grade level readability test. On February 5, after...
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