Changes In Reading Comprehension Across Cultures And Over Time

Changes in Reading Comprehension Across Cultures and Over Time

Changes in Reading Comprehension Across Cultures and Over Time

Testing the Hierarchical Order of Reading Skills: A Multifaceted Rasch Approach

It is well-established in reading assessment that the same reading skills may vary in difficulty, which makes it almost impossible to come to a definite conclusion on the hierarchy of skills. This is primarily due to the influences of test or item characteristics on the difficulty level of an item. These include the item format, context type, question type, explicitness or implicitness of information, students’ test-taking skills, text type and text length. Given the critical role that reading plays in literacy development and learning, this research is hoped to assist researchers and teacher practitioners in understanding what reading skills are, how they have been conceptualised, and how they can be tested. It is also hoped that this book will be a reference for researchers who are interested in using the Many-facets Rasch Model and the FACETS software to investigate the hierarchical ordering of reading skills or any other language skills.