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ASSESSING THE READABILITY OF THIRTY‐NINE BEHAVIOR‐MODIFICATION TRAINING MANUALS AND PRIMERS
Author(s) -
Andrasik Frank,
Murphy William D.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1977.10-341
Subject(s) - readability , psychology , reading (process) , sampling (signal processing) , medical education , computer science , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , filter (signal processing) , computer vision , programming language
Thirty‐nine behavior‐modification training manuals and primers, sampling various topical areas, were subjected to a readability analysis. Reading‐ease scores were computed by the formula developed by Flesch. The texts sampled ranged from very difficult (appropriate for college graduates) to fairly easy (appropriate for readers at the seventh‐grade level).