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Also known as:
Bormuth, Bormuth reading level, Bormuth grade, Bormuth
grade level, Bormuth readability, Bormuth index,
Bormuth
grade level score, Bormuth reading ease, Bormuth scale,
Bormuth reading, Bormuth readability statistics, Bormuth score,
Bormuth readability test,
Bormuth reading assessment,
Bormuth readability assessment,
Bormuth readability score, reading power degrees, Degrees of Reading
Power, Degrees of Reading Power (DRP), or DRP.
Like other best-known readability scores, the Bormuth Grade Level readability score is also based on a count of characters rather than syllables per word and words per sentence to determine a score corresponding to the estimated grade level or grade level score. The formula was designed to evaluate more academic documents, i.e. school textbooks.
Also known as: Bormuth formula, Bormuth equation, Bormuth Grade Level formula, or DRP readability formula.
The formula for the Bormuth readability score formula is:
BGL = 0.886593
- (AWL x 0.03640)
+ (AFW x 0.161911)
- (ASL x 0.21401)
- (ASL x 0.000577)
- (ASL x 0.000005)
where:
BGL : Bormuth grade level score or Bormuth readability score AWL : average word length or number of characters per word (number of characters divided by the number of words) AFW : average familiar words per word (the number of words in the original Dale-Chall list of 3,000 simple words divided by the number of words) ASL : average sentence length in words or average number of words in sentence (number of words divided by the number of sentences)
The Bormuth readability score formula is also known as Degrees of Reading Power (DRP).
Common misspellings: bromuth score, bormuth raedability
score,
bomruth score, bormuth socre, bormtuh score, bormuth garde
level score, borumth score, bormuth lveel, bormuht score, bormuth fromula,
bormuth grdae level score, bormuth graed level score.
The Bormuth readability score is part of the best-known readability scores, amongst other indicators measuring how easily an adult can read and understand a text. Readability statistics are good predictors of the level of difficulty of documents, particularly technical ones. They present different readability scoress that are computed using readability formulas. Other than Bormuth score, readability statistics most commonly used are:
Microsoft Word (MS Word), as a powerful word processor, provide you with a built-in tool to display the readability score list, amongst other readability statistics, but, unfortunately, not Bormuth readability score:
Be aware that MS Word displays readability scores for text in the last language that was checked, likely in the last processed paragraph.
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