Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ466664
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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Text Processing Variables Predict the Readability of Everyday Documents Read by Older Adults.
Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; And Others
Reading Research Quarterly, v28 n3 p234-49 Jul-Sep 1993
Presents a model to predict readability of documents encountered by older adults. Finds a correlation of 0.54 between the readability scores for test items predicted by the model and the percentage of older adults correctly answering those items. Finds that more difficult test items were correlated more highly with fluid intelligence abilities, crystallized intelligence abilities, and memory span. (RS)
Descriptors: Correlation, Models, Older Adults, Predictor Variables, Readability, Reading Research, Text Structure
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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