| Title: |
Answering reading comprehension items without passages on the SAT. |
| Author(s): |
Katz, Stuart, U Georgia, Athens, US
Lautenschlager, Gary J.
Blackburn, A. Boyd
Harris, Felicia H. |
| Source: |
Psychological Science, Vol 1(2), Mar 1990. pp. 122-127.
Journal URL: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0956-7976&site=1 |
| Publisher: |
United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing
Publisher URL: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com |
| ISSN: |
0956-7976 (Print)
1467-9280 (Electronic) |
| Language: |
English |
| Keywords: |
reading comprehension task on SAT with vs without prose passages, individual & item performance, college students |
| Abstract: |
Examined whether the Reading Comprehension (RC) task on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) measures factors that are unrelated to RC. Two experiments were conducted with 197 college students. Performance of Ss on the RC task was well above chance when reading passages were deleted. Moreover, Ss and test items performed similarly with or without the passages: Individual performance correlated with verbal SAT score, and the difficulty of items belonging to a passage correlated with a normative measure based on equated delta. Thus, performance on the RC task appears to depend substantially on factors having nothing to do with understanding the passages normally accompanying test questions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved) |
Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling
University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR 72035
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