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Kondziela, James M. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
A technique for measuring comprehension of lengthy prose is presented. The "textual segmentation" procedure requires subjects to partition text into complete, meaningful units such as paragraphs, chapters, and books. Potential applications of textual segmentation include measurement of reading comprehension, readability, and criteria for…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, High Schools, Prose, Reading Comprehension