What features of text complexity are considered in evaluating student reading?

• A. Lexical density, sentence length and structure, levels of meaning, text structure, domain-specific vocabulary, and coherence and credibility
• B. Font color only
• C. Page margins
• D. Publisher's marketing copy

Answer: (A)

Text complexity is determined by multiple interacting features that affect how hard a text is to read and understand. The features considered include lexical density, which reflects how many content words and uncommon terms appear and thus how demanding the vocabulary is; sentence length and structure, since longer, more intricate sentences increase syntactic difficulty and can impact fluency; levels of meaning, which capture literal, inferential, and evaluative demands the reader must meet to interpret and reason about the text; text structure, or how the text is organized (for example, sequence, cause-effect, or compare-contrast), and how that organization guides comprehension; domain-specific vocabulary, which requires background knowledge of a field or discipline; and coherence and credibility, referring to how well ideas are connected and whether the information is well-supported and trustworthy. These aspects together determine how challenging a text will be for a given reader. Extraneous features like font color, page margins, or marketing copy do not measure text complexity.