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Reading Comprehension Tests: General or Subject-Specific?
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Shoham, Miriam; And Others – System, 1987
Investigation of the relevance of student background discipline (185 college students studying science and technology, biology, and humanities and social science) on tests of reading comprehension in English as a foreign language found that content area passages do affect student performance on reading comprehension tests but not as greatly as…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Content Area Reading, Correlation