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Direct linkYeari, Menahem; Schlesinger, Liran Markel; Moshka, Ella – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
The present study examined the processing and performance of examinees in reading comprehension (RC) tests, when they read the whole text "prior" to its questions ("text-first" strategy [TFs]) compared to reading the text "while" and "for" answering the questions ("questions-first" strategy [QFs]).…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Timed Tests, Test Wiseness
Jana Welling; Timo Gnambs; Claus H. Carstensen – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2024
Disengaged responding poses a severe threat to the validity of educational large-scale assessments, because item responses from unmotivated test-takers do not reflect their actual ability. Existing identification approaches rely primarily on item response times, which bears the risk of misclassifying fast engaged or slow disengaged responses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests
Download full textLee, Jia-Ying – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
This study, an 18-week comparative experiment, examined the effects of instruction in test-taking strategy in English as a foreign language reading class. It involved an experimental group (68 students) taught test-taking strategies and a control group (66 students) that did not receive the instruction. Various means were used to investigate the…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
Tunaz, Mehmet; Tüm, Gülden – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
This research aims at investigating the effects of reading test-taking strategy training on EFL students' performance in English reading tests. The participants of the research were 90 prep-class students chosen randomly and divided into three groups of 30 students as face-to-face training group, online self-training group, and control group. The…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Reading Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Pinette, Clayton, Ed.; Smith, Kent, Ed. – Forum for Reading, 1979
Issued twice yearly, this journal focuses on materials of interest to teachers of reading at the college level. The five articles in this issue deal with the following topics: basic skills instruction, judging the success of college reading programs, the effect of copying or paraphrasing structurally-cued topic sentences on passage comprehension,…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Students, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
Everson, Howard; And Others – 1987
A study involving 103 male and 117 female students entering a major urban university assessed the interaction between test anxiety and skill deficits. The effects of prior achievement and test anxiety on performance on two competency exams were also examined. Instruments consisted of minimum competency tests for reading comprehension and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education
Davis, Todd; And Others – 1987
Whether the time limits of the Academic Assessment Placement Program (AAPP) Reading Comprehension Test of the State Board of Regents (SBR) of Tennessee provide fair treatment for all underprepared students was assessed. Focus was on studying various response patterns and completion rates that indicate whether or not speededness (SP) is critical.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Students, Community Colleges
