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Peer reviewedPyrczak, Fred – Reading Improvement, 1973
Discusses passage content and style, accessibility of the passages, their completeness, the extent to which the items are passage-dependent, and the extent to which additional knowledge is required to answer the questions on reading comprehension tests and exercises. (TO)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction, Test Selection
Peer reviewedWestern, Richard D. – English Education, 1978
Describes a school board's decision to employ a standardized reading proficiency test despite the fact that the test was proven to be passage independent and thus did not measure reading comprehension. (DD)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Secondary Education, Standardized Tests
Kemp, Max – Australian Journal of Reading, 1981
Reports a study of children's responses to a passage-dependent reading comprehension test. (HTH)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
Carver, Ronald P. – 1969
Four conceptually different variables in reading: (1) knowledge gained (new information), (2) amount comprehended (degree of understanding), (3) reading aptitude (differences between individuals), and (4) reading improvement (within individual changes as a result of treatment) are discussed. Existing measures of reading comprehension are evaluated…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction
Gabriel, Dennis; Richards, Irving – 1988
A study was conducted at Cuyahoga Community College to test the relationship between student scores on timed and untimed reading comprehension and vocabulary tests, and to investigate the relationship between those scores and intelligence. The study sample included 72 students enrolled in classes at developmental, freshman, and sophomore levels.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correlation, Intelligence Tests, Reading Comprehension
