Main Idea Questions on Informal Reading Inventories.

Duffelmeyer, Frederick A.; Duffelmeyer, Barbara Blakely

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Publication Date: 1987

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Main Idea Questions on Informal Reading Inventories.

Duffelmeyer, Frederick A.; Duffelmeyer, Barbara Blakely

Reading Teacher, v41 n2 p162-66 Nov 1987

Notes the problem that comprehension questions that claim to assess students' skills in finding main ideas may in fact be measuring their knowledge of identifying the topic of a passage. (JC)

Descriptors: Criteria, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Secondary Education, Test Interpretation, Test Validity, Test Wiseness, Writing Instruction

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