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Education writing level
Category: Reference, Education and News > Teaching and Research Asked by: hawk336-ga List Price: $3.00 |
Posted:
10 Mar 2005 17:25 PST
Expires: 11 Mar 2005 12:44 PST Question ID: 492084 |
I need a website where I can enter phrases and determin my childs educational writing level. Example: much like asking you, only hit submit and obtain immediate results. |
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Re: Education writing level
From: eliteskillsdotcom-ga on 10 Mar 2005 21:55 PST |
They have all kinds of expensive tests for this. Hitting submit for immediate results is not possible. A web application like that would need artificial intelligence and thousands of conditionals. A phrase is given. A full dictionary is used. An artificial intelligence program is used to evaluate if the sentence makes logical sense. A spell check figures out what they might have been trying to say. A comparison check would be made to determine which level the writing matches best. Take the SATs. Ask a some teachers at your local at a public school after showing them a sample essay. The more you make them write the better they get. It might be better to spend any money on a tutor rather than a test. |
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Re: Education writing level
From: purplecloud-ga on 11 Mar 2005 07:44 PST |
When people write a composition, they are using language to express their ideas. Evaluating the education writing level is difficult because a variety of factors (critical thinking skills, options in how to present an idea, perception of audience, grammar, lexis (vocabulary), etc.) all contribute to the 'level' of the final product. Having said that, however, there is a function within the WORD software program which will tell you the readability level (at what grade level) of a piece of writing. Readability generally refers to a combination of the length of sentences used and the number of syllables in the words used in the sentences. The more complicated the idea, the longer it will take a writer to express it and the more sophisticated will be the words s/he uses. There are a number of different readability formulae. 1. To access this function in WORD 2000 here's what you do: open a file which a sample of the writing for which you want to check the readability level 2. On the STANDARD toolbar, open the TOOLS menu and click on OPTIONS and then click on the SPELLING & GRAMMAR tab at the top. Under the Grammar portion at the bottom of that page, select the SHOW READABILITY STATS. Close out the menu. 3. On the STANDARD toolbar click on the SPELLING/GRAMMAR check icon. This will reveal the readability stats for that sample. If you have any problems, click on HELP and type in READABILITY in the Microsoft WORD help. For reference, according to WORD, the readability level of the first paragraph of my comment is 12th grade. |
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