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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prior Knowledge and Reading Comprehension Test Bias
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis dissertation examined bias, especially that due to prior knowledge, in tests of reading comprehension. A pilot study demonstrated that prior knowledge has a strong and measurable effect on comprehension from expository text, even when measured with multiple choice questions. This was demonstrated in two ways, by (a) measuring prior knowledge with passage independent questions, and (b) creating an unfamiliar text by substituting pseudowords for certain familiar words in the text.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Education
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Johnston, Peter H.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8203497
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68747