Name
Title | ||
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An analysis of standardized reading ability tests: what do questions actually measure? |
Abstract | ||
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This study examined what types of passage and individual item attributes of reading ability tests affect item difficulty. Ninety-six questions from the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test for 7/9th graders were analyzed in terms of individual item characteristics and passage features that were considered to affect the item's difficulty. Whereas two passage features, word frequency and sentence length, influenced the item difficulty, none of the individual question characteristics were found to affect the item difficulty. Thus, the GMRT may be assessing how difficult a passage readers can comprehend, not how difficult a question readers can answer about a passage. These findings imply that the GMRT may function well when identifying basic reading comprehension skill differences, but not higher level reading skill differences. However, these findings may be the result of the passages in the GMRT having an atypical construction. Specifically, shorter passages tended to be composed of longer sentences. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2006 | ICLS '06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Learning sciences | individual item characteristic,item difficulty,individual item attribute,individual question characteristic,standardized reading ability test,higher level reading skill,basic reading comprehension skill,passage reader,passage feature,shorter passage,ninety-six question |
DocType | ISBN | Citations |
Conference | 0-8058-6174-2 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 1 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Rowe | 1 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Yasuhiro Ozuru | 2 | 2 | 1.51 |
| Danielle McNamara | 3 | 33 | 3.49 |