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ERIC Number: EJ367248
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1988
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Measuring ESL Readers' Ability to Apply Reasoning in Reading: A Validity Study of the TOEFL Reading Comprehension Subtest.
Perkins, Kyle
Journal of Research in Reading, v11 n1 p36-49 Feb 1988
Reports on an attempt to measure English as a Second Language (ESL) students' ability to apply reasoning in reading, using an experimental test based on Piaget's concrete operations. Suggests that the Test of English as a Second Language (TOEFL) reading comprehension subtest does not measure the ability to apply reasoning in reading; therefore, questions its validity to measure reading. (MM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Foreign Students, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Test Validity
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Test of English as a Foreign Language
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