Are We Reading Too Much into Reading Comprehension Tests?.

Sternberg, Robert J.

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Publication Date: 1991

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Are We Reading Too Much into Reading Comprehension Tests?

Sternberg, Robert J.

Journal of Reading, v34 n7 p540-45 Apr 1991

Describes a dozen ways in which reading tests are at variance in their demands with the demands of reading as it occurs in everyday life. Suggests that these sources of variance render reading tests considerably less valid as measures of real world reading behavior than most people want to believe. (RS)

Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Secondary Education, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Testing Problems

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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