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ERIC Number: EJ298935
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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A Taxonomy of Skills in Reading and Interpreting Fiction.
Hillocks, George, Jr.; Ludlow, Larry H.
American Educational Research Journal, v21 n1 p7-24 Spr 1984
The skills in the interpretation of fiction proposed in this paper are defined by seven item types. Four question sets, based on four different texts, were administered to between 77 and 127 students each. The results confirm experimentally the hierarchical and taxonomic nature of the item types. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Classification, Fiction, Interpretive Skills, Latent Trait Theory, Rating Scales, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Scoring, Secondary Education
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Learning Hierarchies; Partial Credit Model; Rasch Model
Note: This research was funded in part by a grant from the William S. Gray Reading Research Fund of the University of Chicago. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, March 19-23, 1982).