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Comprehending the Gray Oral Reading Test without Reading It: Why Comprehension Tests Should Not Include Passage-Independent Items
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Keenan, Janice M.; Betjemann, Rebecca S. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2006
We examined the validity of the comprehension component of the Gray Oral Reading Test (GORT; Wiederholt & Bryant, 1992, 2001) by assessing whether reading really is required to answer its questions. The extent to which GORT questions are passage independent was assessed by having participants answer them without reading the passages. Most…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Oral Reading, Reading Tests, Test Items