The Development of a Reading Comprehension Test

Abstract

Reading comprehension has an important place in lifelong learning. It is an interactive process between the reader and the text. Students need reading comprehension skills at all educational levels and for all school subjects. Determining the level of students' reading comprehension skills is the subject of testing and evaluation. Tests used to measure students' success are expected to provide accurate and reliable information. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable reading comprehension test appropriate for fourth grade reading comprehension learning outcomes. The participants in the study were 245 fourth graders from three schools at low, middle and high socioeconomic levels in the central district of Kars. Items with discrimination indices below .30 and those that did not differ by 27% in the upper and lower groups on the independent groups t-test were excluded from the test. The difficulty indices of the test items ranged from .37 to .79. The KR-20 reliability coefficient was found to be 0.83, indicating that this multiple choice reading comprehension test is valid and reliable.

Competence of Pharmacy Students in Reading Comprehension

“…Reading comprehension for student are very important because experiences, improve their knowledge, motivation, important idea, make inferences [8] in addition help their on study. In this research the reading competence of Pharmacy students at Universitas Aisyah Pringsewu founds that Based on the table 1 show that 64% or 19 students are in Excellent level and 24% in good level so, still many students are in fair level or 10 %and very poor level or 12%, its means that still students are less competence to comprehension of reading its cause the students are not understanding means of the questions, lazy for reading which make the students are over answers to avoid the mistake it's show on results and analysis above.…”

lectura por placer en la comprensión lectora de los estudiantes de efl

“…On the other hand, if this increase also lasts his previous experience, so he has a wide possibility of capturing each word that turns out to be essential within the text, in this way each inference can be made in a more coherent way in addition to proposing new and better meanings. Finally, to incorporate new learning information, the assimilation process must occur more frequently and continuously (Özdemir & Akyol, 2019).…”

The Effectiveness of Grammar Translation Method in Teaching Reading at Fifth Semester of Ahwal Assyakhsiyah of Stis Darul Falah Mataram

“…Reading predominantly visual thinking. It is the method by which perception of printed symbols because some forms reaction in the mind (Özdemir & Akyol, 2019).…”

“…In involving partial use of available minimal language cues selected from perceptual input on the basis of the reader's expectation. As this partial information is processed, tentative decisions are made to be confirmed, rejected or refined as reading progresses (Özdemir & Akyol, 2019).…”