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ERIC Number: EJ156059
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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Context-Independence of Items Designed to Measure the Ability to Derive the Meanings of Words from Their Context
Pyrczak, Fred
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 36, 4, 919-24, Win 76
Items designed to measure the ability to derive the meanings of words from context were drawn from seven published reading tests. The items were administered to high school students without the context. Only one published test had vocabulary-in-context items that were consistently context-dependent. (Author)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Item Analysis, Reading Tests, Test Validity, Vocabulary
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