Return-Path: <root> Received: (from root@localhost) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f7VBt6O10488 for health-archive@nifl.gov; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:55:06 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200108311155.f7VBt6O10488@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from venus.vcu.edu (venus.vcu.edu [128.172.1.43]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f5LCPhf22214 for <nifl-health@nifl.gov>; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:25:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from edunet.soe.vcu.edu (edunet.soe.vcu.edu [128.172.185.1]) by venus.vcu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA65442 for <nifl-health@nifl.gov>; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:25:43 -0400 Received: by edunet.soe.vcu.edu with VINES-ISMTP; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 7:29:09 EDT Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 8:25:40 EDT Message-ID: <vines.3r06+BMRAvA@edunet.soe.vcu.edu> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) To: <nifl-health@nifl.gov> From: <jsingh@edunet.soe.vcu.edu> (Judy Singh) Reply-To: <jsingh@edunet.soe.vcu.edu> Errors-to: <jsingh@edunet.soe.vcu.edu> Subject: re: [NIFL-HEALTH:3131] RE: Readability scores X-Incognito-SN: 1728 X-Incognito-Version: 5.0.1.89 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-From: root@literacy.nifl.gov Resent-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:55:06 -0400 Resent-To: health-archive@nifl.gov Status: O Content-Length: 1067 Lines: 2 Readability formulas are limited in determining the readability of health education materials. They assess the reading grade level of printed material but they do not take into account other important variables that determine whether a reader is going to be able to comprehend it. The work by Doak, Doak, and Root is excellent in that it takes into account some of these other variables. I have developed an instrument called the Readability Assessment Instrument (RAIN) which is designed to determine the readability of text. It takes into account a large number of variables that reading researchers have found to impact comprehension. The RAIN is designed to assess printed materials to determine the extent to which printed materials incorporate these variables. The instrument can be used to assess printed materials and can also be used as a guide for rewriting materials to ensure they do incorporate variables that affect comprehension. The RAIN has been used to assess healt! h education materials related to a number of different areas of health.
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