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Download full textKoray, Özlem; Çetinkiliç, Sercan – Science Education International, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the effect of critical reading (CR) practices in science courses on academic achievement, science performance level, and problem-solving skills. The experimental method and factorial design were used. The study was conducted with 102 seventh-grade students from a public school in Turkey during the 2014-2015 academic…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Science Materials, Content Area Reading
Haladyna, Thomas M. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2018
Writing multiple-choice test items to measure student learning in higher education is a challenge. Based on extensive scholarly research and experience, the author describes various item formats, offers guidelines for creating these items, and provides many examples of both good and bad test items. He also suggests some shortcuts for developing…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Items, Higher Education
Direct linkChutiporn Anutariya Ed.; Dejian Liu Ed.; Kinshuk Ed.; Ahmed Tlili Ed.; Junfeng Yang Ed.; Maiga Chang Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2023
This book collects the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Learning Environments (ICSLE2023), held in Bangkok, Thailand, as a hybrid conference from 31st Aug to 1st Sep 2023. The proceedings focus on the interplay between pedagogy and technology, and their fusion towards the advancement of smart learning for a sustainable…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Sustainability, Student Satisfaction
Goodwin, Amanda P. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
This study explores the effectiveness of integrating morphological instruction within comprehension strategy instruction. Participants were 203 students (N = 117 fifth-grade; 86 sixth-grade) from four urban schools who were randomly assigned to the intervention (N = 110; morphological problem-solving within comprehension strategy instruction) or…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Collentine, Karina – Hispania, 2016
Tasks provide engaging ways to involve learners in meaningful, real-world activities with the foreign language (FL). Yet selecting classroom tasks suitable to learners' linguistic readiness is challenging, and task-based research is exploring the relationship between learners' overall abilities (e.g., reading, grammatical) and the complexity and…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, College Students
Bani-Salameh, Zakaria A.; Kabilan, Muhammad K.; Bani-Salalmeh, Lina – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
A multimedia English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programme was developed to train flight attendants. The programme comprised of two units. Unit one is listening comprehension, which provides the flight attendants' with specific information of Airbus A340. Unit two is reading comprehension, which provides the flight attendants with the emergency…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Safety, Achievement Tests
Peer reviewedPowell, J. C.; Shklov, N. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
An age-dependent answer-selection sequence of answers on multiple-choice tests suggested by previous studies was supported using statistical rather than clinical means. Results with 2,810 students aged 88 months through 241 months given a reading comprehension test twice during a 5-month interval support the systematically connected age-dependent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Children
Rupp, Andre A.; Ferne, Tracy; Choi, Hyeran – Language Testing, 2006
This article provides renewed converging empirical evidence for the hypothesis that asking test-takers to respond to text passages with multiple-choice questions induces response processes that are strikingly different from those that respondents would draw on when reading in non-testing contexts. Moreover, the article shows that the construct of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension, Evaluation Methods
Tobias, Sigmund; Everson, Howard – College Entrance Examination Board, 1996
This report describes 12 studies dealing with the knowledge monitoring component of metacognition. It is assumed that knowledge monitoring is basic to other metacognitive activities, such as evaluating learning, selecting appropriate strategies, or planning, because distinguishing between what students know and do not know ought to be a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning, Knowledge Level, Multiple Choice Tests
