Measuring the Measurement: A Preliminary Analysis of the Reading Skills Test Items of College English
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decade of language testing research: Selected papers from the 1990 :Language Testing Research Colloquium. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
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______,and Lukmani, Y. (1989). Cognition and Reading: Cognitive Levels as Embodied in Test Questions. Reading in a Foreign Language 5 (2), 253 -270.
Bachman, L.F., et.a!. (1989). Content Analysis and Statistical Modelling of EFL Proficiency Tests. Paper presented at The 11 th Annual Language Testing
Research Colloquium, San Antonio, Texas.
Carroll, P. L. Devine, J. and Eskey, D. (eds.) (1988). Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Carver, (1992a). Effects of prediction activities, prior knowledge, and text type upon amount comprehended: using reading theory to critique schema theory
research. Reading Research Quarterly.
Clapham, C. M. (1996). The Development of IELTS: A Study of the Effect of Background Knowledge on Reading Comprehension. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Davey, B.and Lasasso, C. (1984). The interaction of reader and task factors in the assessment of reading comprehension. Experimental Education 52, 199 -206.
Engineer, W. (1977). Proficiency in reading English as a second language. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, in Alderson, J. C. (2000).
Assessing Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Field, A. (2000). Discovering Statistics Using SPSS for Windows. London: SAGE publications.
Goodman, K. S. (1969). Analysis of oral reading miscues: Applied psycholinguistics. Reading Research Quarterly 5, 9 - 30.
Goodman, K. S. (1982). Process, theory, research. Vo1.1 . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Halliday, M. A. K. (1979). Language as social semiotic. London: Edward Arnold.
Jackson, D.N. and Messick, S. (1967). Problems in Human Assessment. New York: McGraw-Hili Book Company.
Macnanmara, T. (2000). Language Testing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Munby (1978). Communicative Syllabus Design. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pearson, P. D. and Johnson, D. D. (1978). Teaching Reading Comprehension. New York, J: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Smith, F. (1971). Understanding Reading. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Smith, F. (1980). Reading. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Widdowson, H.G. (1979). Explorations in Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
