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Using Restricted Latent Class Models to Map the Skill Structure of Achievement Items 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Edward H. Haertel 《Journal of Educational Measurement》1989,26(4):301-321
This paper presents a new method for using certain restricted latent class models, referred to as binary skills models, to determine the skills required by a set o f test items. The method is applied to reading achievement data from a nationally representative sample o f fourth-grade students and offers useful perspectives on test structure and examinee ability, distinct from those provided by other methods o f analysis. Models fitted to small, overlapping sets o f items are integrated into a common skill map, and the nature o f each skill is then inferred from the characteristics o f the items for which it is required. The reading comprehension items examined conform closely to a unidimensional scale with six discrete skill levels that range from an inability to comprehend or match isolated words in a reading passage to the abilities required to integrate passage content with general knowledge and to recognize the main ideas o f the most difficult passages on the test. 相似文献
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Jürgen Teichmann 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(4):473-478
Difficulties in reading comprehension of physics texts by college students were investigated. A strategy was developed to improve students’ reading comprehension. Students were taught the skill of formulating clear questions on textual material. The strategy stimulated students’ awareness of their difficulties in reading comprehension and could be used by students as a self‐monitoring technique to improve their reading comprehension. 相似文献
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Prior beliefs often bias the comprehension of multiple science-related texts such that belief-consistent texts are better comprehended compared to belief-inconsistent texts (text-belief consistency effect). Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether a metacognitive strategy training focusing on belief-biasing validation processes can reduce the text-belief consistency effect in multiple text comprehension. Participants in the control condition received the PQ4R training as a well-situated and effective reading skill training that increases receptive elaborative processing. In Experiment 1 (n = 39) and Experiment 2 (n = 53) participants receiving a metacognitive strategy training achieved a similar level of comprehension of belief-consistent and belief-inconsistent texts, whereas a text-belief consistency effect was found in the PQ4R condition. These results indicate that a training focusing on belief-biasing validation processes prepare readers for the challenges to comprehend belief-relevant multiple texts, whereas strategies that foster receptive processing of information are not sufficient in the context of controversially discussed topics. 相似文献
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Morag Stuart 《Journal of Research in Reading》1998,21(3):189-194
Scholes (1998) offers a caricature of the definition of reading, which he suggests underlies much recent psychological research. In this response, I attempt to set out a multi-dimensional view of reading, derived from the same psychological research, which encompasses both printed word recognition skills and comprehension of written texts, and elucidates some of the relationships within and between these separable dimensions. In conclusion, I rebut Scholes’ assertion that no study has ever demonstrated a link between phonological awareness and reading comprehension. 相似文献
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John P. Sabatini Tenaha O'Reilly Laura K. Halderman Kelly Bruce 《Learning disabilities research & practice》2014,29(1):36-43
In recent years, researchers, educators, and policy makers have called for a new generation of reading comprehension assessments (e.g., Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2008). Advocates of this movement argue for a deeper type of reading assessment, one that captures students’ ability to not only understand single texts in isolation but also to engage in purposeful, multisource integration of sources. While this shift in how we define and measure reading comprehension is laudable, assessments must also measure the fundamental reading skills that may impede higher‐level comprehension processes. This article presents data from two assessments that were designed to work in tandem to provide a more complete picture of reading comprehension. Middle school students were given a component skills battery which measured core reading skills such as word recognition, decoding, vocabulary, and morphology, as well a second assessment designed to measure reading comprehension. Reading comprehension was measured using a scenario‐based assessment approach, which required students to read a range of sources to fulfill a particular reading goal. The results indicate that students, including struggling readers, were able to read, understand, and problem solve in complex learning environments, but students’ ability to do so was often tempered by their basic reading skills. We argue that including a measure of component skills alongside a measure of higher‐level comprehension is beneficial in interpreting student performance. Accordingly, we present the results on the scenario‐based measure as a function of reading component skills and argue for the value of using this approach for struggling readers. 相似文献
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Morphological skills have previously been found to reliably predict reading skill, including word reading, vocabulary, and comprehension. However, less is known about how morphological skills might contribute to writing skill, aside from its well-documented role in the development of spelling. This correlational study examines whether morphological skill, as measured by a sentence generation task tapping both derivational morphology and meta-syntactic skills, predicts performance on a standardized essay writing task for fifth- and eighth-grade U.S. students (N = 233), after controlling for grade level, comprehension, and writing fluency. Multilevel analyses indicated that morphological skill and writing fluency were each uniquely predictive of essay quality, and this finding was consistent regardless of whether accurate spelling was required in the morphological task. Our results suggest that morphological skills play an important role in writing, as has been previously documented in reading and spelling. 相似文献
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Elissavet Chlapana 《Literacy》2016,50(3):125-132
The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether systematic instruction of informational texts can enhance kindergarteners' cognitive involvement in text discussion and comprehension skills. The sample consisted of 15 children aged 5–6 years old in a kindergarten classroom located in a rural area in Rethymno, Crete. A four‐phase intervention programme was implemented within a 2‐month period. During the first phase, activities were carried out in order to familiarise children with the features of informational texts. During the subsequent phases, reciprocal teaching, What I know ‐ What I want to learn ‐ What I learned (KWL) practice and dialogic reading were used to help children comprehend text information, enhance their cognitive involvement in text discussion and train them in asking literal and inferential questions. The teacher's reading‐aloud sessions were recorded and transcribed. Data showed that the intervention programme helped children recognise the features of informational texts, enhanced their cognitive involvement in text discussion and motivated them to demonstrate comprehension skills that are related to information processing. 相似文献
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《教育心理学家》2013,48(4):203-209
In this article, I review findings from 25 years of my own reading research that bear on the issue of skill-oriented versus holistic approaches to beginning reading. Several studies suggested that successful beginning readers demonstrate early development of word-recognition skills. These studies also indicated that both more and less successful readers make extensive use of contextual information when reading. Two experimental studies suggested that increased instructional and curriculum support for word recognition result in improvements in reading skill compared to whole-language instruction. In conclusion, I suggest that it is a mistake to treat systematic instruction of word-recognition skills as an alternative to instruction that emphasizes reading "authentic" texts and building language comprehension. Both word-recognition skills and building comprehension should be part of a reading program aimed at creating effective independent readers. 相似文献
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Beyond phonological skills: broader language skills contribute to the development of reading 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
This paper reports a study that followed the development of reading skills in 72 children from the age of 8.5 to 13 years. Each child was administered tests of reading, oral language, phonological skills and nonverbal ability at time 1 and their performance on tests of reading comprehension, word recognition, nonword decoding and exception word reading was assessed at time 2. In addition to phonological skills, three measures of non‐phonological oral language tapping vocabulary knowledge and listening comprehension were unique concurrent predictors of both reading comprehension and word recognition at time 1. Importantly, all three measures of oral language skill also contributed unique variance to individual differences in reading comprehension, word recognition and exception word reading four and a half years later, even when the autoregressive effects of early reading skill were controlled. Moreover, the extent to which a child's word recognition departed from the level predicted from their decoding ability correlated with their oral language skills. These findings suggest that children's oral language proficiency, as well as their phonological skills, influences the course of reading development. 相似文献
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理解能力是英语阅读能力的核心,是学生阅读能力的重要标志,而推理判断技能作为英语阅读的重要技能之一,直接影响到人们的阅读能力的强与弱,如何培养外语学习者的这种技能和如何提高理解能力是英语阅读课所面临的一个重要课题。 相似文献
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We report a longitudinal study investigating the predictors of reading comprehension and word reading accuracy between the ages of 7 to 8 (UK Year 3) and 10 to 11 years (Year 6). We found that different skills predicted the development of each. Reading comprehension skill measured in Year 3 was a strong predictor of comprehension in Year 6; vocabulary and verbal IQ also made significant unique contributions to the prediction of comprehension ability across time. Three comprehension components (inference, comprehension monitoring, and knowledge and use of story structure) emerged as distinct predictors of reading comprehension in Year 6, even after the autoregressive effect of comprehension was controlled. For word reading accuracy, early measures of word reading accuracy and phonemic awareness predicted later performance. 相似文献
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宋晓菲 《湖北广播电视大学学报》2013,33(6):133-134
阅读课是英语专业的基础课程,在阅读课中正确运用阅读技巧有助于学生理解能力的提高。许多学生在上英语阅读课时只是追求做阅读理解题的正确率,而忽略了阅读技巧对阅读效率的关键作用。因此在英语专业阅读课中开设阅读技巧课来提高阅读理解能力是有必要的。英语教师应全面了解阅读技巧教学的意义、目的、任务和教学策略,指导学生进行理论学习与实践,推动英语专业阅读技巧课教学改革与创新。 相似文献
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This paper reports two studies that investigate differences in comprehension monitoring skills between good and poor comprehenders.
Two groups of 9– to 10-year-olds, who were matched for reading vocabulary and word recognition skills but who differed in
comprehension skill, were selected. In the first study, in which the children were required to find anomalous words and phrases,
the skilled comprehenders engaged in more accurate monitoring of sentence level anomalies (but not word level anomalies) than
did the poorer comprehenders. In the second study, the comprehension monitoring task required the children to detect pairs
of sentences, in short texts, that were contradictory. In addition, the working memory demands of the task were varied by
placing the two items of inconsistent information either in adjacent sentences, or in sentences that were separated in the
text by several others. As in the first study, less-skilled comprehenders performed more poorly on the detection task, but
the difference between the groups was considerably more pronounced when the sentences were separated than when they were adjacent.
In addition, the children were given a numerical working memory test, and the poorer comprehenders performed more poorly on
this test. However, although working memory performance was related to performance on some of the error detection tasks, comprehension
ability was also a good, and sometimes better, predictor. The results are discussed in terms of the different cognitive abilities
that might contribute to efficient comprehension monitoring. 相似文献
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The relationship of morphological analysis and morphological decoding to reading comprehension
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The ultimate goal of children's reading development is the full and fluid understanding of texts. Morphological structure awareness, or children's awareness of the minimal units of meaning in language, has been identified as a key skill influencing reading comprehension. Here, we evaluate the roles of morphological structure awareness and two related skills, morphological analysis and morphological decoding, in Grade 3 and Grade 5 children's reading comprehension. Respectively, morphological decoding and analysis refer to the use of morphemes in reading and in understanding words. Critically, our analyses show that, together, morphological structure awareness, morphological decoding and morphological analysis account for 8% of the variance in reading comprehension, after controlling for children's age, phonological awareness, nonverbal reasoning and word reading skill. Further, of these dimensions, each of morphological decoding and morphological analysis makes a unique contribution to reading comprehension. We discuss these findings in terms of current theories of reading development and educational curricula. 相似文献
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Irene-Anna N. Diakidoy Melina C. Ioannou Stelios A. Christodoulou 《Reading and writing》2017,30(9):1869-1890
The study is situated at the interface between reading comprehension and critical thinking research. Its purpose was to examine the influence of reading goals and argument quality on the comprehension and critical evaluation of argumentative texts. Young adult readers read to comprehend or evaluate texts on two different controversial issues. Argument quality was varied across text versions on the basis of the hasty generalization fallacy. Text versions varied with respect to the quality of the arguments included, but not in terms of argument content. Measures of comprehension included main claim recall, overall recall and inferences in recall. Text evaluation was measured with a rating task. The sample’s familiarity with the text topics was low, and prior beliefs were relatively neutral. The results indicated that an evaluation goal had a consistent positive effect on main claim and text recall when compared to comprehension goal. Argument quality, however, had no main or interactive effects on text evaluation. The findings indicate that reading to evaluate argumentative text facilitates the representation of its content and critical argument elements, such as the claim it promotes. However, this representation is not sufficient for analyzing and critically evaluating the text’s argument line. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to current efforts to promote critical-analytic thinking skills in the context of reading and writing. 相似文献
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Adults enrolled in basic education exhibit poor academic performance, often reading at elementary and middle-school levels. The current study investigated the similarities and differences of reading skills and eye movement behavior between a sample of 25 low-skilled adult readers and 25 first grade students matched on word reading skill. t tests for matched pairs found no significant differences on language comprehension, reading comprehension, or eye movement variables. Regression analyses revealed that language comprehension made greater contributions to reading comprehension for adults (verses children) in the simple view of reading model. Processing time (gaze duration) was found to account for unique variance in both passage reading comprehension and sentence comprehension efficiency after controlling for word reading and language skills for adults. For children, processing time was only a significant predictor for sentence comprehension efficiency. 相似文献
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Isabel Maria Bjork Claudine Bowyer-Crane 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2013,28(4):1345-1360
This study investigates the relationship between skills that underpin mathematical word problems and those that underpin numerical operations, such as addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Sixty children aged 6–7 years were tested on measures of mathematical ability, reading accuracy, reading comprehension, verbal intelligence and phonological awareness, using a mix of standardised and experimenter-designed tests. The experimental hypothesis was that mathematical word problems will call upon cognitive skills that are different and additional to those required by numerical operations, in particular verbal ability and reading comprehension, while phonological awareness and reading accuracy will be associated with both types of mathematical problems. The hypothesis is partly affirmed and partly rejected. Reading comprehension was found to predict performance on mathematical word problems and not numerical operations, and phonological awareness was found to predict performance on both types of mathematics. However, the predictive value of verbal ability and reading accuracy was found to be non-significant. 相似文献
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Ivar Bråten Leila E. Ferguson Øistein Anmarkrud Helge I. Strømsø 《Reading and writing》2013,26(3):321-348
Sixty-five Norwegian 10th graders used the software Read&Answer 2.0 (Vidal-Abarca et al., 2011) to read five different texts presenting conflicting views on the controversial scientific issue of sun exposure and health. Participants were administered a multiple-choice topic-knowledge measure before and after reading, a word recognition task, and a reading motivation inventory that included two dimensions: Science reading self-efficacy, focusing on readers’ beliefs about their capabilities to comprehend what they read in science, and science reading task value, focusing on readers’ beliefs about how important, useful, and interesting it is to comprehend science texts. In addition, strategic reading pattern was assessed in terms of the degree of non-linear reading behavior. Multiple regression analysis showed that word recognition skills strongly predicted learning from the texts, as assessed by participants’ increase in topic knowledge. However, when multiple-text comprehension indicated by performance on open-ended short-essay questions was the dependent variable, not only word recognition but also strategic reading pattern and science reading self-efficacy emerged as unique predictors when topic knowledge was controlled for. Science reading task value was not related to performance. This study provides new evidence that new literacy competencies needed in a knowledge society, such as synthesizing or integrating across multiple conflicting sources of information, still largely involve word-level, strategic, and motivational processes that may profitably be targeted through systematic instruction. 相似文献
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MollieSmith 《语数外学习(高中版)》2005,(5):44-45
When seeking to improve any skill, it is important to have a positive attitude, to set clear goals, and to practice regularly. The same is true of improving your reading comprehension skills. First, I want to discuss some positive thinking strategies, and then we will discuss some more practical ways of improving in the area of reading comprehension. 相似文献
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Joseph P. Magliano Keith K. Millis Irwin Levinstein Chutima Boonthum 《Metacognition and Learning》2011,6(2):131-154
Comprehension emerges as the results of inference and strategic processes that support the construction of a coherent mental
model for a text. However, the vast majority of comprehension skills tests adopt a format that does not afford an assessment
of these processes as they operate during reading. This study assessed the viability of the Reading Strategy Assessment Tool
(RSAT), which is an automated computer-based reading assessment designed to measure readers’ comprehension and spontaneous
use of reading strategies while reading texts. In the tool, readers comprehend passages one sentence at a time, and are asked
either an indirect (“What are your thoughts regarding your understanding of the sentence in the context of the passage?”)
or direct (e.g., why X?) question after reading each pre-selected target sentence. The answers to the indirect questions are
analyzed on the extent that they contain words associated with comprehension processes. The answers to direct questions are
coded for the number of content words in common with an ideal answer, which is intended to be an assessment of emerging comprehension.
In the study, the RSAT approach was shown to predict measures of comprehension comparable to standardized tests. The RSAT
variables were also shown to correlate with human ratings. The results of this study constitute a “proof of concept” and demonstrate
that it is possible to develop a comprehension skills assessment tool that assesses both comprehension and comprehension strategies. 相似文献