APA Dictionary of Psychology

readability level

Updated on 04/19/2018
  1. the level at which a child is able to read successfully. It is a relative measure of skill, identified in terms of grade level. Also called reading level.
  2. the potential ease with which a passage can be read and understood, based on factors such as legibility of the printed page, vocabulary, sentence length and structure, human interest, and general intelligibility.
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