An Information Theoretic Analysis of Multimodal Readability
Description:
Educators often inquire about the readability of books and other documents used in the classroom, with the idea that readability supports students' reading comprehension and growth. Documents used in classrooms tend to be language-based, so readability metrics have long focused on the complexity of language. However, such metrics are unsuitable for multimodal documents because these types of documents also use non-language modes of communication. This is problematic because multimodal reading i…
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Date:
December 2021
Creator:
Hovious, Amanda S.