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Clemens, Nathan H.; Fuchs, Douglas – Grantee Submission, 2021
Many seem to believe that researcher-made tests are unnecessary, if not inappropriate, for evaluating reading comprehension interventions. We suggest that this view reflects a zeitgeist in which researcher-made (proximal) tests that align with the researchers' interventions are closely scrutinized and often devalued, whereas commercially developed…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Program Evaluation, Reading Programs
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Taehyeong Kim; Byungmin Lee – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
The Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) aims to assess Korean high school students' scholastic ability required for college readiness. As a high-stakes test, the examination serves as a pivotal hurdle for university admission and exerts a strong washback effect on the educational system in Korea. The present study set out to investigate…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Tests, Multiple Choice Tests
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Larsson, Maria; Olin-Scheller, Christina – Curriculum Journal, 2020
This study examines the washback effects of a national test in Swedish at upper secondary schools. The test consists of three parts--reading, writing and speaking--and this study specifically focuses on the washback effects in relation to Stephen Ball's theory of policy enactment. The study draws on qualitative data from a total of 21 interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing Problems, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
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Reed, Deborah K.; Stevenson, Nathan; LeBeau, Brandon C. – Elementary School Journal, 2019
This study investigated the effects of imposing task- or process-oriented reading behaviors on reading comprehension assessment performance. Students in grades 5-8 (N = 275) were randomly assigned to hear multiple-choice items read aloud before or after reading a test passage and when they were and were not allowed access to the passage while…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Aloud to Others
McQuillan, Mark; Phelps, Richard P.; Stotsky, Sandra – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2015
In July 2010, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) voted to adopt Common Core's standards in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics in place of the state's own standards in these two subjects. The vote was based largely on recommendations by Commissioner of Education Mitchell Chester and then Secretary of…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Writing Tests, Achievement Tests, Common Core State Standards
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Schell, Leo M. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Presents an interactive view of reading assessment, which minimizes levels of comprehension and comprehension skills, focusing instead on readers' oral language, prior knowledge of the topic, and ability to reason, and emphasizes the teacher's role in gathering evaluative information. (MM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Tests
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Pyrczak, Fred – Reading Improvement, 1973
Discusses passage content and style, accessibility of the passages, their completeness, the extent to which the items are passage-dependent, and the extent to which additional knowledge is required to answer the questions on reading comprehension tests and exercises. (TO)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction, Test Selection
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Tuinman, J. Jaap – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction
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Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Reading, 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
Wark, David; And Others – 1978
The effects of test anxiety on reading comprehension were studied in two experiments. In the first experiment, 75 college students completed a test anxiety scale and the McGraw-Hill Basic Skills System reading comprehension subtest. The low anxious students in this experiment showed higher reading comprehension than the high anxious students. In…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Western, Richard D. – English Education, 1978
Describes a school board's decision to employ a standardized reading proficiency test despite the fact that the test was proven to be passage independent and thus did not measure reading comprehension. (DD)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Secondary Education, Standardized Tests
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Aronson, Edith; Farr, Roger – Journal of Reading, 1988
Discusses issues in reading assessment, including the concern that tests can not measure the reading process. Concludes that tests will never be more than useful indicators; calls for more research and examination of existing and new types of reading comprehension tests. (MM)
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reading Tests, Test Bias
Axelrod, Jerome – Elementary English, 1973
Suggests reading comprehension exercises, especially on lower reading levels, fail to test the pupil's understanding of the material read. (MM)
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction
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Hutson, Barbara A.; Niles, Jerome A. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Notes that while across large groups of students two tests may be highly correlated, specific characteristics of tests may interact with specific characteristics of students to yield differences in scores for one individual on two or more tests. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Tests
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Gordon, Belita – Journal of Reading, 1982
Suggests techniques for teaching students to comprehend test questions in a manner that requires them to think about both what is in the question and what could be in the passage. (HOD)
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Teaching Methods
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