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Direct linkSchwabe, Franziska; McElvany, Nele; Trendtel, Matthias – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
The importance of reading competence for both individuals and society underlines the strong need to understand the gender gap in reading achievement. Beyond mean differences in reading comprehension, research has indicated that girls possess specific advantages on constructed-response items compared with boys of the same reading ability. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Test Items
Peer reviewedAndrich, David; Godfrey, John R. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1978
Results from 188 subjects indicate that most of the items on the test conform to a Rasch latent trait model, but tend to cluster into levels consistent with a hierarchical structure of skills. (AA)
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Research
Peer reviewedFisher, Donald L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1981
A study attempted to identify those performance-related factors that were responsible for subjects' errors on one measure of functional literacy. The analysis of errors revealed that the majority of errors could be explained in terms of information processing failures. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Error Analysis (Language), Functional Literacy
