Re: TAAS not so bad but...

[Monty Neill <Mneillft@AOL.COM>]

In a message dated 5/31/00 9:04:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
glenn@PEEDEEWORLD.NET writes:

>
>  Interestingly enough, I did this with a group of students this year.  I
>  copied sample questions, but cut out the reading passages.  We were able to
>  answer about 50% of the questions without even having the reading passages
>  on the page.
>

Several studies have been done by Stuart Katz on ability to answer reading
"comprehension" items on the SAT without having read the passages. With some
training, test-taker success was way above chance, though not at the 50
percent level you observed. The Katz research is summarized in various back
issues of the FairTest Examiner, on line www.fairtest.org.

Monty Neill

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