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Download full textJohnsen, Birgitta – 1985
A study of eight adult chronic aphasic patients' comprehension of sentences and pictures in which comparisons of time and space were crucial was designed to assess A. R. Luria's approach to designing comprehension test tasks. The investigation required patients, with lesions of varying size and location, to determine whether a sentence expressing…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Comprehension, Language Processing
Spearritt, D.; And Others – 1977
A battery of reading tests designed to identify the component skills involved in reading comprehension was administered to 624 sixth grade students in the metropolitan Sydney (Australia) schools. Factor analysis of the data showed that knowledge of word meanings, sentence comprehension, and semantic context are experimentally identifiable…
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Anastasio, Ernest J.; And Others – 1969
A study to facilitate computer generation of test items succeeded in developing a set of criteria which could be used by a computer to select sentences suitable for sentence completion question items. The sentence completion item requires the student to complete a sentence from which one or more words have been deleted. Analysis of 110 appropriate…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Educational Research
