Most reading level scoring tools I have worked with (Hemingway, etc.) do not cap the grade level, but this tool seems to have a hard-coded cap of 12.
I work at a higher education institution where much text is drafted at a Flesch-Kincaid 14-18 level and where we are happy if we can work with the author to bring it down to 12. In its current form this tool does not distinguish between these levels.
Ideally there would be a way to specify a max grade level rather than having 12 be hardcoded, e.g.:
$textStatistics = new DaveChild\TextStatistics\TextStatistics;
$textStatistics->setMaxGradeLevel(18);
$grade_level = $textStatistics->fleschKincaidGradeLevel( $string );
Most reading level scoring tools I have worked with (Hemingway, etc.) do not cap the grade level, but this tool seems to have a hard-coded cap of 12.
I work at a higher education institution where much text is drafted at a Flesch-Kincaid 14-18 level and where we are happy if we can work with the author to bring it down to 12. In its current form this tool does not distinguish between these levels.
Ideally there would be a way to specify a max grade level rather than having 12 be hardcoded, e.g.: