Reading comprehension tests vary in the skills they assess: Differential dependence on decoding and oral comprehension
Reading comprehension tests vary in the skills they assess: Differential dependence on decoding and oral comprehension
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10.1080/10888430802132279
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Olson, Richard K.
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作者：
Keenan, Janice M.;Betjemann, Rebecca S.;Olson, Richard K.
理解测试通常可以互换使用，这暗示了一个隐含的假设，即它们都在测量同一件事。我们通过比较美国研究和临床实践中使用的一些最流行的阅读理解测量来检验这一假设的有效性：格雷口语阅读测试（Gray Oral Reading Test，GORT）（复述和理解问题）从定性阅读量表（QRI），伍德科克-约翰逊通道理解分测试（WJPC），以及皮博迪个人成就测试（PIAT）中的阅读理解测试。这些测试之间的适度相关性表明，它们测量的是不同的技能。回归分析表明，解码，而不是听力理解，占大多数的变化，在两个PIAT和WJPC;相反的GORT和QRI措施。在PIAT和WJPC测试中发现了很大的发展差异，而不是其他测试，无论是按实足年龄还是按文字阅读能力来衡量发展。我们讨论了研究和临床实践的严重影响，有不同的理解测试测量不同的技能，并有相同的测试评估不同的技能取决于发展水平。
Comprehension tests are often used interchangeably, suggesting an implicit assumption that they are all measuring the same thing. We examine the validity of this assumption by comparing some of the most popular reading comprehension measures used in research and clinical practice in the United States: the Gray Oral Reading Test (GORT), the two assessments (retellings and comprehension questions) from the Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI), the Woodcock-Johnson Passage Comprehension subtest (WJPC), and the Reading Comprehension test from the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT). Modest intercorrelations among the tests suggested that they were measuring different skills. Regression analyses showed that decoding, not listening comprehension, accounts for most of the variance in both the PIAT and the WJPC; the reverse holds for the GORT and both QRI measures. Large developmental differences in what the tests measure were found for the PIAT and the WJPC, but not the other tests, both when development was measured by chronological age and by word reading ability. We discuss the serious implications for research and clinical practice of having different comprehension tests measure different skills and of having the same test assess different skills depending on developmental level.