The Cloze procedure: An assessment of the understandability of data processing texts

A new readability yardstick.

Rudolph Flesch · Journal of Applied Psychology · 1948 · 5.2K citations

Education, Literacy Education, Reading Comprehension +4

“Cloze Procedure”: A New Tool for Measuring Readability

Wilson L. Taylor · Journalism Quarterly · 1953 · 2.3K citations

Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement +14

SMOG Grading - A New Readability Formula.

G. Harry McLaughlin · The Journal of Reading · 1969 · 2.1K citations

Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Measurement +9

Empirical Studies of Programming Knowledge

Elliot Soloway, Kate Ehrlich · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1984 · 876 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Pragmatics +8

A FORMULA FOR PREDICTING READABILITY

Edgar Dale, Jeanne S. Chall · 1948 · 757 citations

Education, Literature, Literary Criticism +14