ERIC Number: EJ1180521
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Publication Date: 2014-Mar
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Development and Validation of the Test Takers' Metacognitive Awareness Reading Questionnaire (TMARQ)
Zhang, Limei; Aryadoust, Vahid; Zhang, Lawrence Jun
Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, v23 n1 p37-51 Mar 2014
This article reports the development of the Test Takers' Metacognitive Awareness Reading Questionnaire (TMARQ) which measures test takers' metacognition in reading comprehension tests. The TMARQ comprises seven subscales: planning strategies, evaluating strategies, monitoring strategies, strategies for identifying important information, inference-making strategies, integrating strategies, and supporting strategies. In this article, a validity argument is laid out for the questionnaire by presenting content-referenced, substantive, and structural evidence of validity, which is primarily yielded through Rasch measurement and structural equation modeling.
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Tests, Questionnaires, Program Validation, Reading Comprehension, Test Validity, Structural Equation Models, Item Response Theory, Test Construction, Psychometrics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
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