Reading Comprehension Measurement Task

A Reading Comprehension Measurement Task is a Measurement Task that measures a Reader's Reading Comprehension Ability/Reading Ability.

See: Readibility, Level, Reading Comprehension Level, Readability of Text.

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References

1997

• (Pilypas, 1997) ⇒ Helen Pilypas. (1997). “The Use of the Computer as a Tool for Testing Reading Comprehension." BEd dissertation, School of Education, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide
  • Readability is an estimate of the difficulty of a text. Formulas, which include factors such as sentence length, word length and word frequency have been developed to calculate readability.
  • Reading Comprehension is defined from a psycholinguistic viewpoint as "the correspondence between the way in which a message is encoded by the writer and the way in which it is decoded by the reader" (Anderson, 1976, p. 16).

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