Sometimes Adults Miss the Main Ideas and Do Not Realize It: Confidence in Responses to Short-Answer and Multiple-Choice Comprehension Questions.

Pressley, Michael; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ416320

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Publication Date: 1990

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Sometimes Adults Miss the Main Ideas and Do Not Realize It: Confidence in Responses to Short-Answer and Multiple-Choice Comprehension Questions.

Pressley, Michael; And Others

Reading Research Quarterly, v25 n3 p232-49 Sum 1990

Examines the relation between question characteristics and awareness of comprehension. Finds that readers have great confidence that their answers to thematic questions in both short-answer and multiple-choice formats are correct, even when they were wrong. Suggests that readers of challenging, inconsiderate texts are unaware of gross comprehension problems. (KEH)

Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Metacognition, Multiple Choice Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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