Comprehension and validation Running Head: COMPREHENSION AND VALIDATION Comprehension and Validation of Text Information
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Cloze validation against IELTS Reading Paper: Doubts on correlational validation
Cloze was officially introduced in a journal on Journalism as a technique for estimating text readability and as "a new psychological tool for measuring the effectiveness of communication" (Taylor, 1953: 415). Different varieties of cloze have since been developed and experimented upon as measures of such diverse traits as reading comprehension and language proficiency. The findings of numerous...
متن کاملDifferential Item Functioning (DIF) in Terms of Gender in the Reading Comprehension Subtest of a High-Stakes Test
Validation is an important enterprise especially when a test is a high stakes one. Demographic variables like gender and field of study can affect test results and interpretations. Differential Item Functioning (DIF) is a way to make sure that a test does not favor one group of test takers over the others. This study investigated DIF in terms of gender in the reading comprehension subtest (35 i...
متن کاملPii: S0306-4573(99)00071-0
There are numerous guides on Web design but for the most part, these are based on designers' intuition and common sense Ð with little theoretical or experimental validation. A major problem is that there is a general lack of cognitive guidelines for Web design. Of the few available theoretical guidelines for designing hypermedia documents, very little experimental research is available that tes...
متن کاملSemantic Answer Validation in Question Answering Systems for Reading Comprehension Tests
In this paper it is presented a methodology for tackling the problem of answer validation in question answering for reading comprehension tests. The implemented system accepts a document as input and it answers multiple choice questions about it based on semantic similarity measures. It uses the Lucene information retrieval engine for carrying out information extraction employing additional aut...
متن کاملEvaluation of Latent Semantic Vector Models Using a Swedish Word Comprehension Test
This paper presents an evaluation of latent semantic vector models trained with different corpora and parameter settings. The important result is how the performance of the model changes depending on various parameters when the evaluation is not only the usual information retrieval testbed, but a word comprehension test. The new evaluation set may also be of interest for other researchers since...
متن کامل