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How Assessing Reading Comprehension with Multiple-Choice Questions Shapes the Construct: A Cognitive Processing Perspective
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Rupp, Andre A.; Ferne, Tracy; Choi, Hyeran – Language Testing, 2006
This article provides renewed converging empirical evidence for the hypothesis that asking test-takers to respond to text passages with multiple-choice questions induces response processes that are strikingly different from those that respondents would draw on when reading in non-testing contexts. Moreover, the article shows that the construct of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension, Evaluation Methods