Re:Meaning ... (Score 2, Interesting)

What I write. I'm not a high school teacher - I will be an elementary school teacher. I've used it to determine the grade level of the test questions and directions I'd written for a fifth grade language arts test. If I write an assignment of test, and I run it through Flesch-Kinkaid, and it comes through a 8.5, I need to simplify my test. Unfortunately, some of my 5th grade kids might be on a 3rd grade reading level - so having my test directions and questions at the 8th grade level would be unfair. Its not used to "dumb down" an assignment - its used to simplify and clarify - and its much more difficult to judge the readibility of a text than it seems. Run an essay or composition through it - see what you get. Cheers.