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Direct linkThumbeck, Sarah-Maria; Webster, Janet; Domahs, Frank – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Reading comprehension is frequently impaired in persons with aphasia (PWA). For goal-setting and outcome measurement, speech and language therapists (SLTs) need to determine an individual's perspective of their reading difficulties and everyday reading activities. The Comprehensive Assessment of Reading in Aphasia (CARA) reading…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Reading Tests, Aphasia, Questionnaires
Lordán, Eva; Solé, Isabel; Beltran, Francesc S. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
The aim of this research was to develop a new questionnaire for exploring the reading beliefs of undergraduate students, because the only currently available instrument has conceptual and methodological limitations. The paper describes the process of developing the instrument and presents a range of psychometric data obtained from a sample of 558…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Reading Attitudes
Development and Validation of the Test Takers' Metacognitive Awareness Reading Questionnaire (TMARQ)
Zhang, Limei; Aryadoust, Vahid; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article reports the development of the Test Takers' Metacognitive Awareness Reading Questionnaire (TMARQ) which measures test takers' metacognition in reading comprehension tests. The TMARQ comprises seven subscales: planning strategies, evaluating strategies, monitoring strategies, strategies for identifying important information,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Tests, Questionnaires, Program Validation
Aryadoust, Vahid; Zhang, Limei – Language Testing, 2016
The present study used the mixed Rasch model (MRM) to identify subgroups of readers within a sample of students taking an EFL reading comprehension test. Six hundred and two (602) Chinese college students took a reading test and a lexico-grammatical knowledge test and completed a Metacognitive and Cognitive Strategy Use Questionnaire (MCSUQ)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Item Response Theory, Reading Comprehension
Download full textIsmail, Nasrah Mahmoud; Tawalbeh, Tha'er Issa – International Education Studies, 2015
As the training of language learners was a main concern of EFL teachers, this study aimed to assess the effectiveness of metacognitive reading strategies instruction (MRSI) on Taif University EFL students who achieved low results in reading. The final sample of this study was (21) female university students. The sample was divided into two groups;…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Experimental Groups, English (Second Language)
Fichten, Catherine S.; Nguyen, Mai N.; King, Laura; Havel, Alice; Mimouni, Zohra; Barile, Maria; Budd, Jillian; Jorgensen, Shirley; Chauvin, Alexandre; Gutberg, Jennifer – International Journal of Special Education, 2014
We translated and report on the psychometric properties of English and French versions of two reading difficulties screening tools for junior/community college students. We administered the Adult Reading History Questionnaire-Revised (ARHQ-R) (Parrila, Georgiou, & Corkett, 2007) to 1889 students enrolled in compulsory language courses in…
Descriptors: College Students, Screening Tests, Reading Fluency, Language Proficiency
Brown, Gavin T. L.; Hirschfeld, Gerrit H. F. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2008
Students conceive of assessment in at least four major ways (i.e., assessment makes students accountable; assessment is irrelevant because it is bad or unfair; assessment improves the quality of learning; and assessment is enjoyable). A study in New Zealand of 3469 secondary school students' conceptions of assessment used a self-report inventory…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Curriculum Based Assessment, Reading Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Stansfield, Charles W.; And Others – 1992
The development of the Polish Proficiency Test, a standardized, nationally-normed test of listening and reading comprehension for English-speaking learners of Polish, is reported. An introductory chapter provides background information about the test's development, including discussion of the relationship between the test and Polish language…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Listening Comprehension, Polish
