Abstract:Beginning readers benefit in most situations from reading activities that are neither too difficult nor too easy. This study investigated which text features make reading comprehension difficult for third and fourth grade elementary school students. Specifically, 145 multiple-choice items from a reading comprehension test used in several cross-sectional studies (G3: N = 1387; G4: N = 868) and a longitudinal sub-study (N = 195) were analyzed using explanatory item response models to explain item difficulty and … Show more
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