An important objective in survey question design is to write clear questions that respondents
find easy to understand and to answer. This contribution identifies the factors that influence …

Many studies have shown that vague or ambiguous questions are often interpreted
idiosyncratically by respondents and thus can increase measurement error. This article …

Asking questions is the predominant method of gathering information about people's beliefs,
values, attitudes, behaviors, and states of affairs (eg, Foddy, 1993; Schuman & Presser …

The purpose of this book is to show how teaching reading involves all teachers. The book
first explains how decades of change in Britain have affected school organization …

Background: Academic writing aims to communicate and disseminate new knowledge and
discoveries effectively, necessitating a balance of brevity and thoroughness in the …

Why did the turtle cross the road? To get to the shell station. Why did the hamburger go
away from the bun? Because it wanted to be on the tray. The first riddle is funny in a way that …

It is universally acknowledged that the wording of a survey question can have a strong
influence on the answers that respondents provide. For example, many studies have shown …

Abstract Evaluation of admissibility of a foreign student to American junior colleges,
colleges, and universities typically involves scrutiny of, among other things, one's score of …

In a recent and comprehensive review of readability research, George Klare composes a
picture of the current state of our knowl edge of readability. He makes an important …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the interference of certain anaphoric
expressions (pronouns) on eighth grade students' reading comprehension. The subjects (n …