Testing Reading through Summary
Testing Reading through Summary
Investigating summary completion tasks for assessing reading comprehension ability
Lynda Taylor
British English
October 2013
Paperback
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.
