Education is a basic right, but not everyone privileged to get access quality education. In the Philippines, Technical and Skills Development Authority which offers non-degree education underprivileged Filipino adults challenged by several problems in instruction including assessment. To address this concern, study focused on assessment essential enhancing of across all levels. This specificall...

BACKGROUND Health literacy impacts health outcomes. Health literacy is a measure of a person's competence to find, access, contextualize, and understand the information needed to make health decisions. Low levels of health literacy have been associated with poor health status. Health literacy can be enhanced by improving the readability of health literature. Misuse and abuse of prescription med...

We describe SkillSum, a Natural Language Generation (NLG) system that generates a personalised feedback report for someone who has just completed a screening assessment of their basic literacy and numeracy skills. Because many SkillSum users have limited literacy, the generated reports must be easily comprehended by people with limited reading skills; this is the most novel aspect of SkillSum, ...

BACKGROUND The understandability and readability of the text are significant indicators of evaluation of textbooks. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study - rationale of improving the readability and understandability of textbooks. METHODS 60 modern textbooks for 5-11th classes on History, Physics, Biology and 23 textbooks of 1960-1980's edition. Flesch index was used to assess the readability, Fog...

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...

background because the quality of information on the internet is of dubious worth, many patients seek out reliable expert sources. as per the american medical association (ama) and the national institutes of health (nih) recommendations, readability of patient education materials should not exceed a sixth-grade reading level. the average reading skill of u.s. adults is at the eighth-grade level...

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...

Background: Cancer screening rates are lower in Japan than those in western countries. Health professionals publish procancer screening messages on the internet to encourage audiences to undergo cancer screening. However, the information provided is often difficult to read for lay persons. Further, anti-cancer screening activists warn against cancer screening with messages on the Internet. We a...