Coh-Metrix: Providing Multilevel Analyses of Text Characteristics

Computer analyses of text characteristics are often used by reading teachers, researchers, and policy makers when selecting texts for students. The authors of this article identify components of language, discourse, and cognition that underlie traditional automated metrics of text difficulty and the...

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Published in:Educational researcher 2011-06, Vol.40 (5), p.223-234
Main Authors: Graesser, Arthur C., McNamara, Danielle S., Kulikowich, Jonna M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CAI
Cognition & reasoning
Cohesion
Comprehension
Computer assisted instruction
Computers
Content Analysis
Degrees of Reading Power Test
Discourse analysis
Educational technology
Flesch Kincaid Grade Level Formula
Flesch Reading Ease Formula
Form Classes (Languages)
Grade levels
Intervention
Language Acquisition
Language thought relationship
Linguistics
Narratives
Nouns
Prior Learning
Reading
Reading comprehension
Reading Teachers
Researchers
Semantics
Sentence structure
Sentences
Student Characteristics
Syntactics
Syntax
Teachers
Textual criticism
Verbs
Words
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