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Peer reviewedCarver, Ronald P. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Argues that the Degrees of Reading Power test is not a valid tool for its main purpose, matching students to appropriate texts, because the test's units of text difficulty are not uniformly comparable to the test's units used to reflect a reader's ability. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Readability, Readability Formulas, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedBormuth, John R. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Explains significant but accounted for factors that affected the validity of the Degrees of Reading Power Test. (HOD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Prior Learning, Readability, Readability Formulas
