Another Practical Note on Readability Formulas.
Karl Koenke · The Journal of Reading · 1971
Karl Koenke is an assistant professor of elementary education, and director of the Center for Reading Research and Instruction of the University of Illinois at Vrbana-Champaign. ■ Although Pauk (1969) has reported that in at least one instance the members of a university reading methods course have rejected the recently developed simpler and quicker readability formulas (Fry, 1968; McLaughlin, 1969) in favor of the more complex and more accurate DaleChall formula (1948), this cannot reasonably be thought of as a harbinger. Perhaps it is more realistic to believe that, as Dulin (1971) has suggested, various situations in which a teacher may find need for a readability measure will be identified, and the best possible match will be made between the techniques and the situations.