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| Journal of Reading Behavior | 5 |
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| Berk, Ronald A. | 1 |
| Bowers, Frederick | 1 |
| Evans, Ronald V. | 1 |
| Finn, Patrick J. | 1 |
| Nacke, Phil L. | 1 |
| Rystrom, Richard | 1 |
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| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
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Peer reviewedFinn, Patrick J. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1975
Examines the problems of constructing tests and shows how the rules of transformation generative grammar can be used to produce easily understood test questions. (RB)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Testing, Higher Education, Language Usage
Peer reviewedBerk, Ronald A. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1979
Evaluates the merits of item transformations and the cloze procedure in terms of (1) the extent to which literal comprehension skills are validly measured; (2) the extent to which the issue of passage dependency is addressed; and (3) utility for educational practitioners. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Measurement Techniques, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedEvans, Ronald V. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Grade 12, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewedRystrom, Richard – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1972
Discusses the effect of sentence structure on the reading acquistition process of beginning readers. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Linguistic Performance, Linguistic Theory, Reading Skills
Peer reviewedBowers, Frederick; Nacke, Phil L. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1971
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Deep Structure, Information Theory, Linguistic Theory
