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Syntactic Density Score (SDS) with Some Aids for Tabulating.
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Golub, Lester S. – 1973
The Syntactic Density Score (SDS) is designed to determine the syntactic density of the oral and written discourse of students in grades 1-14, as well as that of reading materials selected for students. The SDS can be hand tabulated; however, a computer program is available which can determine the score from any corpus of material typed into the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, High School Students, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts