17 Facts About Readability

Readability is the ease with which a reader can understand a written text.

Readability exists in both natural language and programming languages though in different forms.

Readability found that an easier reading style helps to determine how much of an article is read.

Readability found that people will read less of long articles than of short ones.

Readability divided the items into those above the 8th-grade level and those at the 8th grade or below.

Readability chose the 8th-grade breakpoint, as that was determined to be the average reading level of adult readers.

Readability found that the main blocks to comprehension are unfamiliar words and long sentences.

Readability wrote that word skills can be increased if the teacher introduces new words and repeats them often.

Readability did not invent a formula, but a method for assessing the difficulty of materials for parent education.

Readability was the first to assess the validity of this method by using 16 magazine passages tested on actual readers.

Readability evaluated 14 measurable and three reported factors that affect reading ease.

Readability used his 16 passages to compare and judge the reading ease of other texts, a method now called scaling.

Readability showed that even though these factors cannot be measured, they cannot be ignored.

Readability claimed that they did not distinguish between the different meanings that many words have.

Readability's found that a visible plan for presenting content greatly helps readers to assess a text.

Readability's work supported earlier research including the degree of reading ease for each kind of reading.

Readability showed that the measures of reading ease worked as well for adults as for children.