What can standardized reading tests tell us? Question-answer relationships and students’ performance

Journal of College Reading and Learning

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 21-37

  Wang, Danhua ^a  

^a St Louis Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960719006     PISSN: 10790195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10790195.2006.10850185     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Benito, Y. M., Foley, C. L., Lewis, C. D., & Prescott, P. (1993). The effect of instruction in question-answer relationships and metacognition on social studies comprehension. Journal of Research in Reading, 16, 20-29.
2. Bransford, J. D., & Johnson, M. K. (1972). Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall. Journal of Verbal Learning & Verbal Behavior, 11, 717-726.
3. Britton, B. K., Glynn, S. M., Meyer, B. J., &Penland, M. J. (1982). Effects of text structure on use of cognitive capacity during reading. Journal of Educational Psychology, 74, 51-61.
4. Brown, J. I., Fishco, V. V., & Hanna, G. S. (1993a). Nelson-Denny reading test, Form G. Itasca, IL: Riverside Publishing.
5. Brown, J. I., Fishco, V. V., S’ Hanna, G. S. (1993b). Nelson-Denny reading test: Manual for scoring and interpretation, Forms G&H. Itasca, IL: Riverside Publishing.
6. Crowell, D. C., Au, K., & Blake, k. M. (1983). Comprehension questions: Differences among standardized tests. Journal of Reading, 26, 314-319.
7. Davey, B. (1988). Factors affecting the difficulty of reading comprehension items for successful and unsuccessful readers. Journal of Experimental Education, 56, 67-76.
8. Dole, J. A., Duffy, G. G., Roehler, L. R., & Pearson, P. D. (1991). Moving from the old to the new: Research on reading comprehension instruction. Review of Educational Research, 61, 239-264.
9. Englert, C. S., & Hiebert, E. H. (1984). Children’s developing awareness of text structures in expository materials. Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 65-74.
10. Guthrie, J. T., & Kirsch, I. S. (1987). Distinction between reading comprehension and locating information in text. Journal of Educational Psychology, 79, 220-227.
11. Meyer, B. J. F., & Rice, G. E. (1984). The structure of text. In P. D. Pearson (Ed.), Handbook of reading research (pp. 319-351). Mahwah, N.J: L. Erlbaum Associates.
12. Nagy, W. E. (1985). Learning words from context. Reading Research Quarterly, 20(2), 233 253.
13. Pearson, D. P., & Johnson, D. D. (1978). Ibaching reading comprehension: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
14. Peters, C. W., & Wixson, K. K. (1989). Smart new reading tests are coming. Learning, 17, 43-44,53.
15. Raphael, T. E., & Au, K. H. (2005). QAR: Enhancing comprehension and test-taking across grades and content areas. The Reading "teacher, 59, 206-221.
16. Raphael, T. E., & Pearson, P. D. (1985). Increasing students’awareness of sources ofinfor- mation for answering questions. American Educational Research Journal, 22, 217-235.
17. Stanovich, K. (1986). Matthew effects in reading: Some consequences of individual differences in the acquisition of literacy. Reading Research Quarterly, 21, 360-407.
18. Symons, S., & Pressley, M. (1993). Prior knowledge affects text search success and extraction of information. Reading Research Quarterly, 28(3), 250-261.
19. Tfil, N. F., Siegel, L. S., & Maraun, M. (1994). The role of question type and reading ability in reading comprehension. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 6, 387-402.
20. Wells, K., & Larson, J. (1987). Questioning strategies that lead to comprehension. Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal, 31, 27-34.