Passage Characteristic: Average Sentence Length
Existing literature suggests that processing time is greatly increased when reading longer sentences in testing passages. This characteristic contributes to overall passage difficulty.
This characteristic is sometimes measured using the Lexile Text Analyzer software.
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Psychology
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