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Cognition and Reading: Cognitive Levels as Embodied in Test Questions.
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Alderson, J. Charles; Lukmani, Yasmeen – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1989
Attempts to answer the question whether indentifiably separate levels of reading comprehension exist by judgmentally using 9 teachers at the University of Lancaster and empirically using 100 students from Bombay university. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Students, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language)
Testing Reading Comprehension Skills (Part Two) Getting Students to Talk about Taking a Reading Test (A Pilot Study).
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Alderson, J. Charles – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1990
Reports on introspective and retrospective accounts from test takers, in an attempt to examine the validity of reading and test-taking "skills." It is noted that there are clearly certain skills or processes involved in answering test items in a particular format that are not necessarily specified by the test writer. (15 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Pilot Projects, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests