An Examination of the McCall-Crabbs Standard Test Lessons in Reading.
Milton D. Jacobson · The Journal of Reading · 1978
methodology at the University of Virginia, Kirkland does research in children's linguistic, cognitive/social and personality development. Selden is an Education Policy Fellow with the National Institute of Education, Teaching and Learning Program. He conducts research in reading, and syntax related to readability. ■ The McCall-Crabbs Standard Test Lessons in Reading (McCall and Crabbs 1925a, 1925b, 1961) have had a long and useful history in readabilty work. Since their publication in 1926, these graded test lessons have provided the criterion of reading comprehension difficulty for the readability formulas of Lorge, Flesch, Dale-Chall, and Gunning and for other formulas which were derived from these. In 1961 a revised version the test lessons was published. Since the revision, E.B. Coleman has conducted a continuing line of res arch on readability (prose complexity) which is primarily based on cloze scores of the revised tests, and Harris and Jacobson's continuing readability research is partially based on this revision.