Testing Reading through Summary
Testing Reading through Summary
Investigating summary completion tasks for assessing reading comprehension ability
Editors:
English Type:
British English
Published:
October 2013
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781107695702
Paperback
Product description
This volume explores the use of summary tasks as an effective means of assessing reading comprehension ability.
It reports on a series of empirical studies that investigated the development and trialling of text-removed summary completion tasks and discusses the correlation of these tasks with results from independent measures to validate text-removed summary completion as a measure of reading comprehension ability.
Key features
- Includes a review of relevant literature on reading comprehension ability and approaches to its assessment.
- Describes in detail methodologies for investigating readers’ mental representations of text.
- Investigates an innovative test method for assessing readers’ understanding of written text.
