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Improving Comprehension Assessment for Middle and High School Students: Challenges and Opportunities
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Download full textSabatini, John; Petscher, Yaacov; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Truckenmiller, Adrea – Grantee Submission, 2015
For decades, standardized reading comprehension tests have consisted of a series of passages and associated multiple-choice questions. Although widely used in and out of the classroom, there continues to be considerable disagreement regarding how or whether such tests have net value in the service of advancing educational progress in reading. This…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
McArthur, David L. – 1985
The use of computers to build diagnostic inferences is presented in two contexts: (1) closed world, exemplified by the space shuttle launch monitoring system; and (2) open world, represented by computerized diagnostic testing of reading comprehension. The analysis shows that the closed world provides a substantially cleaner environment within…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science
