The Reading Difficulty of Parent Education Materials

Authors

R. H. Ojemann, State University of IowaFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

It is not necessary to emphasize the fact that reading plays an important part in the education of parents. A more significant problem is that of discovering the characteristics of materials that fall at different levels of difficulty. A solution of this problem would make possible a more effective selection and preparation of materials suitable to the widely differing reading abilities that one finds among adults. The purpose of this investigation is to determine the factors that are associated with difficulty and to learn what the characteristics of materials are at the various levels. To carry out this study the reading difficulty of a series of sixteen selections was determined experimentally and the variation of numerous factors with difficulty was analyzed.

Publication Date

1933

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

40

Issue

1

First Page

159

Last Page

170

Copyright

©1933 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Ojemann, R. H. (1933) "The Reading Difficulty of Parent Education Materials," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 40(1), 159-170.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol40/iss1/94