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Profiling Students' Quantitative Literacy Abilities: An Approach with Precision (Document Strategies).

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Mosenthal, Peter B.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Journal of Reading, 1993

Presents an instrument to observe students' quantitative literacy abilities. Discusses document strategy factors and quantitative factors contributing to task difficulty. (SR)

Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Mathematics Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Strategies

A Schema-Based Reading Test.

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Lewin, Beverly A. – 1992

Schemata based notions need not replace, but should be reflected in, product-centered reading tests. The contributions of schema theory to the psycholinguistic model of reading has been thoroughly reviewed. Schemata-based reading tests provide several advantages: (1) they engage the appropriate conceptual processes for the student which frees the…

Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College English, Educational Needs, English (Second Language)