Walfish Steven, Pinholster Katherine
Independent Practice, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Eat Disord. 2008 May-Jun;16(3):212-6. doi: 10.1080/10640260802016720.
Educational materials are often a key component of recovery in a mutual-help group. However, in order to be helpful to a maximum number of members, these materials must be presented at a reading level that is comprehensible. Two measures of readability, The Flesch Reading Ease score and the Flesch-Kincaid Grade-Level score were applied to 20 random paragraphs chosen from The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous. Results indicate that the average paragraph is written just below the tenth grade level and close to an optimum level of reading ease. However, due to variability, almost half (45%) of the paragraphs fell in the category of Difficult Reading Ease and half were found to be at a tenth grade reading level or beyond. In order to maximize the utility of this educational text, it is recommended that future editions take into consideration principles of readability.
教育材料通常是互助小组康复过程中的关键组成部分。然而，为了对尽可能多的成员有所帮助，这些材料必须以易于理解的阅读水平呈现。将两种可读性衡量标准，即弗莱什易读性分数和弗莱什-金凯德年级水平分数，应用于从《匿名暴饮暴食者十二步与十二传统》中随机选取的20个段落。结果表明，平均段落的写作水平略低于十年级，接近最佳易读水平。然而，由于存在变异性，几乎一半（45%）的段落属于难读易读类别，另一半则被发现处于十年级或更高的阅读水平。为了最大限度地提高这本教育文本的实用性，建议未来版本考虑可读性原则。
