How Important is Passage Dependence in Reading Comprehension?

Hanna, Gerald S.; Oaster, Thomas R.

doi:10.1080/00220671.1978.10885104

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“…Numerous investigations showed that students regularly succeeded in answering reading comprehension questions correctly even when the related passages were not accessible (Preston, 1964;Pyrczak, 1975), and these outcomes were considered as a probable threat to the validity of reading comprehension tests. The fundamental notion was that what is assessed with the passages removed was something other than comprehension, and low relationship of students' performance in the passage-removed and the predicted circumstances have been used as confirmation that definitely two kinds of behaviors were assessed in two circumstances (Hanna & Oaster, 1978;Preston, 1964;Tuinman, 1971). To argue the problem of passage dependency in a more organized method, Tuinmann offered ways to evaluate the degree to which reading questions could be answered without reading the stimulus passage by determining the passage dependency index for each question.…”

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Examining passage dependency in IELTS reading comprehension tests through its relation to IQ: A probe into test-taking strategies

Mohammadi¹,

Ghonsooly²,

Pishghadam³

2019

IJRSLL

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The primary objective of the present study is to explore the extent to which the reading comprehension items in IELTS can be answered correctly by test takers in passage out condition, that is, the passage independency of the items. Furthermore, the study makes an attempt to investigate the role of different kinds of intelligences and the use of test-taking strategies in successful reading achievement of test takers in two conditions of the test (when the passage is present and when the passage is absent). The target participants of the present study comprised 175 male and female EFL students who were selected from three private EFL institutes of Mashhad. The instrumentation in the present study consists of two questionnaires and two tests. As the result shows, there is a significant difference between the passage-out, and passage-in conditions in terms of IELTS reading comprehension.

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Examining passage dependency in IELTS reading comprehension tests through its relation to IQ: A probe into test-taking strategies

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Ghonsooly²,

Pishghadam³

2019

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An Improved Design for Examining the Importance of Context Dependence

Hanna

1979

Journal of Reading Behavior

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Few investigators have sought to determine, rather than merely to assume, the importance of context dependence. It is contended that those who have empirically studied the issue have not addressed the most appropriate research question. The rationale of a research design for estimating the importance of context dependence is presented. Two pilot studies are provided to illustrate the method of investigating the importance of context dependence and of comparing aspects of utility and validity of competing passage dependence indices.In recent years a body of literature has accumulated concerning passage dependence in reading comprehension and the more general case of context dependence (CD) in any kind of interpretive exercise type test. Writers have offered alternative methods of operationalizing CD Although questions regarding the importance of CD are amenable to empirical research, few investigators have sought to determine, rather than to assume, its importance. This article concerns the practical importance of CD. The purposes were to (1) propose a research design for estimating for a given population the extent to which items with high CD measure a construct that is independent from that measured by items with low CD, (2) show how this design can be used empirically to compare the utility of alternate CD indices, and (3) provide findings of two explorative, demonstrative studies. RATIONALEPrevious studies of the importance of CD have secured scores for examinees administered a set of questions without the context upon which they are based and at University of Manitoba Libraries on June 9, 2015 jlr.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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