Adjectives as Information Sources for Reading-Comprehension Test Items

1971 ◽  
Vol 33 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1205-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Random Error ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
Task Administration ◽  
Made In

To replicate Bradley's (1970) investigation of various parts-of-speech as information sources for responses to reading-comprehension test items, 180 Ss in Grades 3, 4, and 5 were assigned to treatment groups which corresponded to grammatical deletions made in the reading paragraphs. Nouns were confirmed as the primary information source and adjectives were not confirmed as an information source. It was concluded that some artifact of task, administration, or random error was responsible for the previous finding of adjectives as information sources for responses to reading-comprehension test items.

Not Read, but Nevertheless Solved? Three Experiments on PIRLS Multiple Choice Reading Comprehension Test Items

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 214-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörn R. Sparfeldt ◽  
Rumena Kimmel ◽  
Lena Löwenkamp ◽  
Antje Steingräber ◽  
Detlef H. Rost
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Comprehension Test

scholarly journals Developing Reading Comprehension Test for The First Semester Students of English Department

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanafi Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
English Department ◽  
Good Test ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
Test Materials

This research is inspired by the facts that in the previous research, for doing researches, some researchers have to make themselves the instruments they need for their research. The instruments especially test available in the market are usually made based on general criteria. That is why they can not fulfill the need of research since it must be specific depending on the condition of each respondent. The purpose of this research is to develop a reading comprehension test items which fulfill the criteria of “good test”. The test materials are taken from some sources and developed using Azwar Model. The evaluation on the test from the result of tryout shows that the test made by the researcher has fulfilled the criteria of valid, reliable and practical.Keywords: reading comprehension, test, valid, and reliable, practical

Idioms and Reading Comprehension

1974 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-293
Author(s):  
Peter Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Treatment Effect ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Idiomatic Expressions

Presents results from a study designed to determine whether idioms cause difficulty for children in the reading and understanding of prose. Two hundred and fifty-six grade eight children were randomly chosen from two high schools and each child was tested with one of four tests which contained increasing amounts of idiomatic expressions. The treatment effect was highly significant, the means increased steadily, with the highest scores associated with the test containing no idioms and the lowest scores associated with the test containing idioms in all items. There was no significant difference between the performance of boys and girls in the tests. An analysis of the four treatment groups showed that there were significant differences between the means of all groups except the two groups containing the greatest number of idioms in the test items.

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