Criterion Reference Reading Comprehension Tests: New Forms with Old Ghosts.

Lyons, Kevin

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Publication Date: 1984

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Criterion Reference Reading Comprehension Tests: New Forms with Old Ghosts.

Lyons, Kevin

Journal of Reading, v27 n4 p293-98 Jan 1984

Cautions that criterion referenced tests are no more effective at diagnosing comprehension subskills than are traditional instruments, and they may lend false credibility to the subskill approach to comprehension. (AEA)

Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Reading Tests, Secondary Education, Test Validity, Testing Problems

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Language: English

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