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Short-Answer Reading Comprehension Tests

The document discusses different types of reading comprehension assessment tasks, including multiple choice questions (MCQs), short-answer tasks, and open-ended reading comprehension questions. It also covers editing or proofreading longer texts as an assessment task. For editing tasks, authenticity is increased by simulating proofreading one's own essay, and tests can be designed to match grammatical and rhetorical categories to specific curriculum courses to provide diagnostic information for student placement.

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Short-Answer Reading Comprehension Tests

The document discusses different types of reading comprehension assessment tasks, including multiple choice questions (MCQs), short-answer tasks, and open-ended reading comprehension questions. It also covers editing or proofreading longer texts as an assessment task. For editing tasks, authenticity is increased by simulating proofreading one's own essay, and tests can be designed to match grammatical and rhetorical categories to specific curriculum courses to provide diagnostic information for student placement.

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SHORT-ANSWER TASK

- MCQs are difficult to construct and validate and teachers


rarely have time to prepare.
- A reading passage is presented, and task-taker reads
questions that must be answered in a sentence or two.
OPEN-ENDED READING COMPREHENSION
QUESTIONS
EDITING (LONGER TEXTS)
1. Authenticity is increased.
2. The task simulates proofreading one’s own essay, where it is
imperative to find and correct errors.
3. If the test is connected to a specific curriculum (such as
placement into one of several writing courses), the test
designer. can draw up specifications for a number of
grammatical and rhetorical categories that match the content of
the courses
 an overall score provide a holistic assessment
 For the placement purposes, teachers were able to be given a diagnostic chart
of each student's results within all of the specified categories of the test.
-Sentence structure
-Verb tense
-Noun/article features
-Modal auxiliaries
-Verb complements
-Noun clauses
-Adverb clauses
-Conditionals
-Logical connectors
-Adjective clauses (including relative clauses)
-Passives

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