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Green, Donald Ross; Langhorst, Beth Hoover – 1986
The passage dependence of an item refers to the degree to which it is necessary to read the associated passage in order to be able to answer that item correctly. This paper studies the value of obtaining data about passage dependence in the construction of reading comprehension achievement tests. Passage dependence indices were examined in several…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10
