We the People: Elementary Pre-Service Teachers and Constitutional Readability

Lori T. Meier; Karin Keith

We the People: Elementary Pre-Service Teachers and Constitutional Readability

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Abstract

This study explores the reading difficulty level of the Constitution for pre-service elementary teachers in a large, public university in the southeastern United States. For our purposes, the difficulty level of the Constitution for the target readers was determined through administration of a cloze measure based on Article 2, Section 1.

Original language	American English
State	Published - May 1 2013
Event	2013 Annual American Educational Research Association Meeting - San Francisco, CA Duration: May 1 2013 → …

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Conference	2013 Annual American Educational Research Association Meeting
Period	5/1/13 → …

Keywords

pre-service teachers
constitution
elementary school

Disciplines

Curriculum and Instruction
Language and Literacy Education
Teacher Education and Professional Development

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We the People: Elementary Pre-Service Teachers and Constitutional Readability

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