Purpose – The purpose of the study is to review readability formulae and offer a critique, based on a comparison of the grading of a variety of texts given by six well-known formulae. Methodology – A total of 64 texts in English were selected either by or for native English speaking children aged between six and 11 years. Each text was assessed using six commonly used readability formulae via t...

In this document, we present more formally, with the proofs, the different properties of ASD presented in the paper " Amplitude Spectrum Distance: measuring the global shape divergence of protein fragments ". 1 Definition and notations We first recall the definitions and notations used in the paper with a slight change on the indices ranging hereafter from 0 to N −1 for practical and readabilit...

BACKGROUND Self-administered depression measures are important tools for research and practice, but their utility depends on the quality of the measurements they yield. Respondent comprehension is essential for meaningful measurement and prior studies have used readability indices to assess comprehensibility. Readability, however, is only one aspect of comprehension and empirical evidence shows...

Background: Patient education is taken into account as one of the key components of comprehensive care as well as one of the significant nursing functions in order to increase community health. In this respect, education materials and written texts can improve patient information up to 50% and consequently meet patient satisfaction. Readability is considered as an integral concept in patient ed...

Readability is the measure of how easier a piece text is. assessment plays crucial role in facilitating content writers and proofreaders to receive guidance about easy or difficult In literature, classical readability, lexical measures, deep learning based model have been proposed assess readability. However, readability using machine data-intensive task, which requires reasonable-sized dataset...

Readability is a systematic measure of ease, with which written information can be read and understood. It affect the reader’s ability to access, comprehend, utilize health information. This study assessed readability online COVID-19 readily available public engage with. At time when organisations institutions were rapidly providing advice reacting developing pandemic, it was hypothesised that ...

Well-developed reading comprehension skills are emphasized across the National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) of South Africa (DBE, 2011) as sufficient central to successful learning in all subjects. Despite high importance effective skills, standard intermediate phase learners remains alarmingly low when considering results international assessments. From these results, it ...

This study aimed to investigate whether there is any significant relationship between the readability and vocabulary profile including the most frequent words (K1 words) and academic word list (AWL) of reading passages of Four Corners series which were EFL textbooks. To determine the readability of the texts, the Flesch–Kincaid (1975) readability test was used, while the texts' academic word li...