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Fernando Moncada; Romualdo Ibáñez; Andrea Santana; Claudia Guerra – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The Hybrid Text Comprehension cloze (HyTeC-cloze) (Kleijn et al. Lang Test 36:553--572, 2019) is a procedure developed for the Dutch language that has been proved to be a valid and reliable measure of text comprehension beyond the sentence level. Given its advantages, including its relatively rapid construction and scoring and performance compared…
Descriptors: Spanish, Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Indo European Languages
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Berendes, Karin; Wagner, Wolfgang; Meurers, Detmar; Trautwein, Ulrich – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Silent reading is the primary mode of reading for proficient readers, and therefore, silent reading fluency is often assessed in research and practice. However, little is known about the validity of the tests administered to students with different language backgrounds. Given that academic language is assumed to be especially challenging for…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Language Usage, German
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Grant, Amy; Gottardo, Alexandra; Geva, Esther – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The validity of two measures of English reading comprehension was examined across three different groups of English language learners (ELLs; 64 Portuguese, 66 Spanish and 65 Cantonese). All three groups were achieving within the average range in second grade. An exploratory principal components analysis of reading skills was carried out to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Validity, Reading Skills
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Campbell, Heather; Espin, Christine A.; McMaster, Kristen – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of Curriculum-Based Measures in writing for English learners. Participants were 36 high school English learners with moderate to high levels of English language proficiency. Predictor variables were type of writing prompt (picture, narrative, and expository), time (3, 5, and 7…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Writing Tests, Test Validity, Test Reliability