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ERIC Number: EJ1479210
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Sep
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1053-4512
EISSN: EISSN-1538-4810
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Diagnostic and Instructionally Relevant Measurement of Reading Comprehension
Intervention in School and Clinic, v61 n1 p19-28 2025
Reading outcomes at a national level have remained stagnant for more than two decades. One reason why is that the field has struggled with how to address poor reading comprehension when reading words is not the problem. Another is that limited insight into the causes of poor comprehension performance is offered by traditional reading comprehension measures. This article describes the Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment (MOCCA), a measure of reading comprehension designed to assess the cognitive processes in which Grade 3 to 6 students engage when trying to comprehend as they read. In contrast to traditional reading comprehension assessments, MOCCA provides diagnostic information about how students who are struggling with reading comprehension cognitively approach the comprehension task. Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment scores are directly aligned to instructional decisions and are most useful when triangulated with other reading curriculum-based measures, for which this article provides two examples and a decision-making heuristic.
SAGE Publications and Hammill Institute on Disabilities. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 3; Primary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades; Grade 5; Middle Schools; Grade 6
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Measures of Academic Progress
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305A140185; R305A190393
Department of Education Funded: Yes
Author Affiliations: 1University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA; 2Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA; 3California State University, Chico, Chico, CA, USA; 4University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA