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Lan, Yi-Chin; Lo, Yu-Ling; Hsu, Ying-Shao – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
Comprehension is the essence of reading. Finding appropriate and effective reading strategies to support students' reading comprehension has always been a critical issue for educators. This article presents findings from a meta-analysis of 17 studies of metacognitive strategy instruction on students' reading comprehension in computerized…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Meta Analysis, Participant Characteristics, Reading Comprehension
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Jang, Eunice Eunhee; Roussos, Louis – International Journal of Testing, 2009
In this article we present results of a Differential Item Functioning (DIF) study using Shealy and Stout's (1993) multidimensionality-based DIF analysis framework. In this framework, differences in test score distributions across different groups of examinees may be a result of multidimensionality if secondary dimensions (not the primary dimension…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Vocabulary, English (Second Language), Scores